Abstract
Summary Raymond Williams was perhaps the foremost cultural critic in Britain of the post‐war period. Yet his work retained a consistent hostility towards what has become a central component of our understanding of the social construction of the subject ‐ the theory of psychoanalysis. This essay traces the terms of William's hostility towards psychoanalysis and argues that most of this was the product of a missed encounter with psychoanalysis. It is argued that this missed encounter is all the more surprising given the interest in psychoanalysis shown by predecessors of Williams such as Herbert Read, Alick West and Christopher Caudwell.
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