Juliet Mitchell

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British psychoanalyst and author

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Juliet Mitchell, Lady Goody is a British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author.

Early life and education

Mitchell was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and moved to England in 1944, where she stayed with her grandparents in the Midlands. She attended St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a degree in English in 1962, as well as doing postgraduate work. She taught English literature from 1962 to 1970 at Leeds University and Reading University. Throughout the 1960s, Mitchell was active in leftist politics, and was on the editorial committee of the journal New Left Review.

Career

''Women: The Longest Revolution''

Mitchell's article "Women: The Longest Revolution", in the New Left Review (1966), was an original synthesis of Simone de Beauvoir, Frederich Engels, Viola Klein, Betty Friedan and other analysts of women's oppression.

The Cambridge University Centre for Gender Studies

She is a fellow professor of Psychoanalysis at Jesus College, Cambridge, and founded the Centre for Gender Studies at Cambridge University. In 2010, she was appointed director of the Expanded Doctoral School in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London (UCL).

''Psychoanalysis and Feminism''

Mitchell is best known for her book Psychoanalysis and Feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing and Women (1974), in which she tried to reconcile psychoanalysis and feminism at a time when many considered them incompatible. Peter Gay considered it "the most rewarding and responsible contribution" to the feminist debate on Freud, both acknowledging and rising beyond Freud's male chauvinism in its analysis. Mitchell saw Freud's asymmetrical view of masculinity and femininity as reflecting the realities of patriarchal culture, and sought to use his critique of femininity to critique patriarchy itself.

By insisting on the utility of Freud (particularly in a Lacanian reading) for feminism, she opened the way for further critical work on psychoanalysis and gender. She was an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University from 1993 to 1999.

Bibliography

Monographs

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Edited books

References

References

  1. (2008-05-06). "Juliet Mitchell interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 6th May 2008". Alanmacfarlane.com.
  2. (1998). "The Routledge dictionary of twentieth-century political thinkers". Psychology Press.
  3. Mitchell, Juliet. (November–December 1966). "Women: The Longest Revolution". Newleftreview.org.
  4. Singh, Sunit. (August 2011). "Emancipation in the heart of darkness: An interview with Juliet Mitchell".
  5. "Professor Juliet Mitchell | Jesus College in the University of Cambridge". Jesus.cam.ac.uk.
  6. [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/unit-staff/juliet.htm UCL: Juliet Mitchell] {{webarchive. link. (2 November 2012)
  7. Mitchell, Juliet. (1974). "Psychoanalysis and feminism: Freud, Reich, Laing, and women". Pantheon Books.
  8. [http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/m/i.htm#mitchell-juliet Juliet Mitchell Archive at marxists.org]
  9. Gay, Peter. (1988). "Freud: a life for our time". Dent.
  10. Herik, Judith. (1985). "Freud on femininity and faith". University of California Press.
  11. Tandon, Neeru. (2008). "Feminism: a paradigm shift". Atlantic Publishers & Distributors.
  12. Dietrich, Penny. (2018). "All Professors at Large, 1965–2023".

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