It's one of the professions they've sought to brigade, like law, journalism, teaching, politics, basically anywhere they get to play Other. I had a prominent, well-regarded female lacanian analyst in the 2000s who turned out to be psychotic and did as much harm as possible - not without casting myself as villain, albeit an absurdly unlikely one.
Lacan seemed to suggest they were less directly subject to repression than men, via the relation to the father, for example, who's a relatively "humiliated" figure today. The repression-sublimation dynamic, in that sense, considered as social reality/necessity, etc...
