'If we are interested in understanding and challenging the oppression of women, we cannot afford to neglect psychoanalysis."
'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.
