Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis: Twenty-First-Century Psychoanalysis and Feminism

by R. Duschinsky (Editor), S. Walker (Editor)

Overview

This volume fills the gap in books dedicated to the ideas of ground-breaking theorist Juliet Mitchell. Essays from internationally renowned scholars address themes that cross-cut her oeuvre: equality, violence, collective movements, subjectivity, sexuality and power. Mitchell herself contributes a chapter and an afterward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349479580
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	03/18/2015
Series:	Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	291
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Judith Butler, University of California, USA Gillian Harkins, University of Washington, USA Daru Huppert, Viennese Psychoanalytical Society, Austria Rachel Leigh, Cambridge Lehrhaus Centre for Jewish Thought, USA Jacqueline Rose, Queen Mary University, UK Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, USA Preti Taneja, University of London , UK Paul Verhaeghe, Ghent University, Belgium

Table of Contents

1. The Aetiology of Hysteria in Mitchell's Madmen and Medusas; Susan Walker 2. Siblings, Secrets and Promises – Aspects of infantile Sexuality; Daru Huppert 3. Debating Sexual Difference, Politics and the Unconscious; Juliet Mitchell, Judith Butler, and Jacqueline Rose 4. Dialectic and Dystopia; Robbie Duschinsky 5. Marked by Freud, Mitchell and the Freudian Project; Daru Huppert 6. Hysteria Between Big Brother and Patriarchy; Paul Verhaeghe and Eline Trenson 7. Reframing Obsessional Neurosis: The Rat Man's Siblings; Robbie Duschinsky and Rachel Leigh 8. Minimal Difference: On Siblings, Sex and Violence; Mignon Nixon 9. Sisters at the Gate; Gillian Harkins 10. Crimes of Identity; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 11. Afterward-An interview with Juliet Mitchell; Juliet Mitchell and Preti Taneja

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides a very good overview of Juliet Mitchell's work and explores it in depth. In a remarkably clear and precise way, the authors introduce crucial concepts she developed, contextualise them and explore their theoretical and clinical implications. This book is a marvellous tool which will help the complete beginner but also the experienced academic to understand how much Juliet Mitchell's work opens up a new horizon in psychoanalytic theory." - Lionel Bailly, Senior Lecturer in Psychoanalysis, University College London, UK

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