Juliet Mitchell
Emeritus Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies, University of Cambridge
I’m a professor emerita of psychoanalysis and gender studies at the University of Cambridge,
where I established a Centre for Gender Studies. I'm also Founder Director of the Expanded Doctoral School in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London. I’m not a specialist. I’m what people call a polymath, which means I go across a lot of disciplines. The sorts of subjects I range in are sociology, politics, socialist politics and art. I’m currently working in the field of contemporary art, Louise Bourgeois particularly, and in English literature, which was my first degree.
EXPs by Juliet Mitchell
All women, with or without privilege, are in some way or other disadvantaged. They are always the Other, no one and oppressed.
Psychoanalysis is absolutely central to the feminist revolution. The way to use Freud as a feminist is quite simple. It is to say, look, we can take over and use this very complex and detailed analysis of patriarchy. We can make it fair. We can make it our own by seeing what it is that it’s describing.
What I got curious about was that everybody was writing books about female hysteria. But what about male hysteria?