Introduction I to ‘Jacques Lacan & the École Freudienne, Feminine Sexuality’ : 1982 : Juliet Mitchell
‘Introduction I’ by Juliet Mitchell situates Lacan’s work in relation to his overall project within psychoanalytic theory, and then gives an account of the earlier psychoanalytic debate on femininity in the 1920s and 1930s of which these texts are in many ways the direct sequel. Juliet Mitchell, the author of ‘Psychoanalysis and Feminism’, is (in 1982) a practising psychoanalyst in London. She has lectured widely and written articles and books on literature, women and [...]