Early Psychoanalysis' contribution to feminist objectives

As a key figure in early psychoanalysis Freud's insistence that psychoanalysis was a different entity to neurology and psychology meant that women wouldn't have to go through medical training, which was not easily available to them, to work as psychoanalysts, so it opened up a quasi-medical career.  He also supported the women's suffrage movement and, to that extent, could be seen as an influential figure who was 'on the side of women' and what they were attempting to gain.  Freud, Reich and Ferenczi all leaned to the left, politically speaking, parties which were much more open to ideas of the emancipation of women.  Anna Freud and Melanie Klein were again very influential in the world of psychoanalysis, and as women would have presented a something of figureheads in this area.  They both also concentrated on the importance of women as mother in the development of children - something still less recognised with the still patriarchal approach to family life in the decades following the Edwardian era.

Freud's and others' hearts may have been in the right place with regard to feminist objectives, but I don't think their feminist psychology was advanced as their political ideals.