reaction Mitchell's view

Juliet Mitchell in contrast to most feminist who attack Freud’s views on women, takes a different approach. She considers Freud’s analysis of women an important contribution to the understanding the status of women in our patriarchal society. And I would fully agree with that. In order to challenge the social role of women successfully it is important to understand how our society has viewed their status in the past. But Freud was not simply describing his observations of women. He believed that women were lower than man and submissive by nature and this is evident in his analysis of femininity. So I would have to disagree with Mitchell who believes that Freud’s analysis of femininity was not suggesting what role women should have in society but was simply stating his observations.