Bridging the gap between clinical psychoanalysis, critical theory and social critique, this seminar 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, we hope that this conversation, along with audience discussion, will provide attendees with useful lenses for navigating a deeply polarised world.

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.

This event will be online only, and no recording is permitted.