Psychoanalysis and Feminism - A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis and Feminism is a profound and groundbreaking challenge to the entrenched belief that Freud was the enemy. Rather, Mitchell argued that a rejection of psychoanalysis as bourgeois and patriarchal was fatal for feminism. However, it may have been used, she pointed out, psychoanalysis is not a recommendation for a patriarchal society, but rather an analysis of one.

Original and provocative, this book remains an essential component of the feminist canon and a radical re-evaluation of psychoanalytic theory.

About the author

Juliet Mitchell FBA is Emeritus Professor at the universities of Cambridge and London, and the Founder Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Women: The Longest Revolution, Woman’s Estate, Mad Men and Medusas, Siblings: Sex and Violence, and, most recently, Fratriarchy.

Report

`For me personally, and for many others I know, Juliet Mitchell's Psychoanalysis and Feminism was a game changer, for the brilliance with which it made the case for Freud's writing as an indispensable part of feminist thought. At a time when the question of how to understand human sexuality is being so hotly debated, Mitchell's intervention could not be more pertinent today.' Jacqueline Rose

Product details

• Authors: Juliet Mitchell, Mitchell Juliet
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.01.2026
• EAN: 9781836740049
• ISBN: 978-1-83674-004-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Essential Psychoanalysis
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Feminism and feminist theory, Marxism & Communism, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis