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While more has been written on the subject during the last ten years than in any previous decade, the issue is still a controversial one. Critics opinions today vary even more widely than did those of earlier scholars. For example, many studies like Thomas Moser's Joseph Conrad: Achievement and Decline and Bernard Meyer's Joseph Conrad: A Psychoanalytical Biography have accused Conrad of a "hatred and fear of women, a latent voyeurism and exhibitionism, an obsession with incest, and a fear of emasculation. ,,2 On the other hand writers like Ford Madox Ford have argued that Conrad was not obsessed with women, but that he chose to ignore them and that he tried to leave them "altogether out of his books."3 |
