Juliet Mitchell and Frances Morris: Psychoanalysis and Feminism

When Juliet Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism was published in 1974, Freudianism was seen by most feminists as ineradicably patriarchal and inimical to the women’s movement. Mitchell’s brilliant exegesis, drawing on Lacan and Laing as well as Freud himself, instead sees Freud's asymmetrical view of masculinity and femininity as reflecting the realities of patriarchal culture and seeks to use his critique of femininity to critique patriarchy itself.

To mark a new edition of her seminal work from Verso, Mitchell was in conversation with curator, art historian, writer and former director of the Tate Modern, Frances Morris.