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"What we fear, as Freud has said, is what we often secretly wish for most of all, if only in the subconscious, because if we were to experience our worst fears, we would be liberated from them. In Bourgeois's objects, we feel the positive inclinations of the soul -- the very best things we are capable of -- as heavily as we do the negative -- the very worst things. They are literalizations of dreams and nightmares, the beautiful and erotic and the horrendous and neurotic.
Bourgeois's objects of the later eighties and early nineties would reach a level of elegance and formal perfection that even Brancusi would have envied. Hard materials are melted into sinuous shapes that are never short of miraculous in attaining their desired formal and psychological effect."
Christian Leigh "The Earrings of Madame B...: Louise Bourgeois and the Reciprocal Terrain of the Uncanny" in Joanna Ekman, Louise Bourgeois, The Locus of Memory, Works 1982-1993 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), p. 58