Juliet Mitchell

Please Note: To preserve and respect both intellectual property rights and confidentiality, the seminar will not be recorded, nor is recording permitted.

Two Talks on Violence, Power, and the Social Fabric
Talk 1 with Juliet Mitchell 

The Law of the Mother

Seminar description:

Join us as we host two of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of the modern era, Juliet Mitchell and Jessica Benjamin. Bridging the gaps between clinical psychoanalysis, critical theory, and social critique, these seminars will explore how deeply embedded dynamics of authority, gender, and relational space inform today’s global controversies. Whether you are a clinician navigating your own and your clients’ responses to a volatile landscape, or an academic decoding the psychological currents of global politics, this series offers vital psychoanalytic frameworks. We hope that these talks, along with audience discussion, will provide attendees with useful lenses for navigating a deeply polarised world.

About the Speaker:

Professor Juliet Mitchell FBA is internationally recognised for her pioneering work in psychoanalytic feminism. She is Professor Emerita and founding director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her work centrally informed second-wave feminist theory by integrating Freudian psychoanalytic thought. Expanding the traditional Oedipal model, she introduced a lateral paradigm that explores how sibling dynamics, childhood violence, and the “law of the mother” shape the human psyche.