As with the social-structural versions of standpoint epistemology, there is a problem about overgeneralization. However, the object relations approach differs from more orthodox Freudian psychoanalysis in that it is less deterministic. It uses clinical practice as a basis for characterizing dilemmas and available strategies and resources encountered by individuals in the course of personality development, but it leaves considerable open space for each individual to resolve or deal with problems in unique ways. So, the abstract characterizations of masculine and feminine identity formation are better seen as ideal types, with most individuals located at different points along the continuum between, but with males tending toward the masculine pole, females toward the feminine. In another departure from more orthodox psychoanalysis, the approach recognizes the possibility of different kinds of gendered personality formation if the responsibilities of care were differently allocated, and if, in particular, men played a more central role in caring work,and women had more poportunities in the public sphere beyond the immediate familial context. So, as with the social-structural versions of standpoint epistemology, the psychoanalytic one posits a close relationship between the potential for new kinds of understanding and the struggle to transform social relationships in liberatory directions.