Psychoanalysis and Feminism
A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Verso Books
Publishing:13th Jan '26
£19.99
This title is due to be published on 13th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'If we are interested in understanding and challenging the oppression of women, we cannot afford to neglect 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.
`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
A brave and important book, and its influence will not be confined to feminists * New York Review of Books *
A book of provocative imagination and ambition which sets out to transform our view of Freud and history. * New York Times Book Review *
ISBN: 9781836740049
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 600g
512 pages
Paperback original