“The unconscious is not a biological given but a social construction.”

— Juliet Mitchell

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About Juliet Mitchell

Feminist Theorist • British

Juliet Mitchell is a highly influential British psychoanalyst and socialist feminist theorist. Born in New Zealand and later moving to England, she became a prominent intellectual figure in the New Left and the women's...

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