Juliet Mitchell, Lady Goody FBA (born 4 October 1940) is a British psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, research professor and author.
Mitchell was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1940, and then moved to England in 1944, where she stayed with her grandparents in the Midlands.
She attended St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a degree in English in 1962, as well as doing postgraduate work.
[5] In 2010, she was appointed director of the Expanded Doctoral School in Psychoanalytic Studies at the Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London (UCL).
[10] By insisting on the utility of Freud (particularly in a Lacanian reading) for feminism, she opened the way for further critical work on psychoanalysis and gender.