''The Question of Lay Analysis'' (german: Die Frage der Laienanalyse) is a 1926 book by

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

, the founder of

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...

, advocating the right of non-doctors, or 'lay' people, to be psychoanalysts. It was written in response to

Theodore Reik Theodor Reik (; 12 May 1888, in Vienna, Austria – 31 December 1969, in New York) was a psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students in Vienna, Austria, and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States. Education and caree ...

's being prosecuted for being a non-medical, or lay, analyst in Austria. It is in this book that Freud compares the sexual life of adult women to a "dark continent":

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