Upcoming Talks and Lectures
“Fratriarchy and Feminism,” University College London (UCL) and The Anna Freud Center
In this lecture, Mitchell argues that the mother’s prohibition of her toddler attacking a new or expected sibling is a rite of passage from infancy to childhood. This is a foundational force structuring our social world.
“Fratriarchy and Feminism,” London Institute for Psychoanalysis
In Fratriarchy, Professor Juliet Mitchell expands her ground-breaking theories on the sibling trauma and the Law of the Mother. Writing as a psychoanalytic practitioner, she shows what happens from the ground up when we use feminist questions to probe the psycho-social world and its lateral relations.
“Psychoanalysis and Feminism Revisited”– a course designed exclusively for the Freud Museum
To mark the 50th anniversary of her landmark publication, Professor Juliet Mitchell revisits Psychoanalysis and Feminism to explore how these ideas remain central to an understanding of the condition of women today, the development and current state of feminism, and the value of psychoanalytic thinking in political thought and action.
“Bourgeois chooses Art,” Centre Pompidou-Metz
Juliet Mitchell presents a brand-new view of the artist Louise Bourgeois as part of this major exhibition of Jacques Lacan at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
“Fratriarchy,” University of Cambridge Center for Gender Studies
Lecture by Professor Mitchell, followed by insightful presentations from MPhil students at the Center for Gender Studies.
Zeitlyn Annual Commemorative Lecture, Cambridge, UK
Juliet Mitchell will give a lecture on her latest work, Fratriarchy, at the Annual Commemorative Zeitlyn Lecture. Afterwards, the audience will have the opportunity to raise questions and discuss.
Psychoanalytischen Kollegs, Berlin
In this lecture on ‘Fratriarchy and Feminism’, Juliet Mitchell briefly juxtaposes Fratriarchy with Patriarchy exemplified by Freud’s notion of a female Oedipus complex.
Toronto Psychoanalytic Society
This symposium will bring to the foreground Juliet Mitchell’s ground-breaking work on sibling relations. It will hone in on what she has viewed as a gap in psychoanalytic theory concerning the developmental dilemma of the toddler in being faced with the birth of a sibling.
Freud Museum London
The Freud Museum welcomed Professor Juliet Mitchell to celebrate her latest publication Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother (Routledge, 2023).