five things about freud:

a) the development of women's autonomy, and esp. sexual autonomy in the late 19th century, needed a certain amount of rigour
b) the rise of freud's rep allowed this rigour, so in the great american instinct towards absorbing before understanding, they took him as part of their discourses before he was properly translated and disperesed.
c) they used freud then, along with Ellis and Carepenter among others, as a way to legimitize their liberatory sexualiy
d) when freud was properly translated they realised how problematic ideas of absence, the body, penis envy and the like would be to their thesis, and started scrambling for a new kind of intergration.
e) this scrambling, and by extension this americansed freud cauterized (perhaps acciedentally) the flow of discourses about desire that were emerging from this time, and were not resolved until the late 60s