Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Robbie Duschinsky, Susan Walker

   Pages 1-22

3. The Etiology of Hysteria in Mitchell’s Mad Men and Medusas

   • Susan Walker

   Pages 23-42

4. Siblings, Secrets, and Promises: Aspects of Infantile Sexuality

   • Daru Huppert

   Pages 43-55

5. Ideologies of the Super-Ego: Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Revisited

   • Judith Butler

   Pages 57-75

6. Debating Sexual Difference, Politics, and the Unconscious: With Discussant Section by Jacqueline Rose

   • Juliet Mitchell

   Pages 77-99

7. Dialectic and Dystopia: “This might come as a shock…”

   • Robbie Duschinsky

   Pages 101-130

8. Marked by Freud, Mitchell, and the Freudian Project

   • Daru Huppert

   Pages 131-145

9. Hysteria between Big Brother and Patriarchy

   • Paul Verhaeghe, Eline Trenson

   Pages 147-167

10. Reframing Obsessional Neurosis: The Rat Man’s Siblings

    • Robbie Duschinsky, Rachel Leigh

    Pages 169-192

11. Minimal Difference: On Siblings, Sex, and Violence

    • Mignon Nixon

    Pages 193-205

12. Crimes of Identity

    • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

    Pages 207-227

13. Sisters at the Gate: Mean Girls and Other Sibling Phenomena

    • Gillian Harkins

    Pages 229-254

14. How Can We Live Ourselves? An Interview with Juliet Mitchell

    • Preti Taneja

    Pages 255-271

15. Back Matter

    Pages 273-291

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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.

• Juliet Mitchell
• lateral axis
• siblings
• psychoanalytical theory
• feminism
• Hysteria
• identity
• Infantile Sexuality
• Nation
• politics
• psychoanalysis
• Sex
• The Unconscious
• violence

"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

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

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