Juliet Mitchell

Freud, Reich, Laing und die Frauenbewegung

Psychoanalyse und Feminismus

A Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis and Feminism

In Fratriarchy, Juliet Mitchell expands her ground-breaking theories on the sibling trauma and the Law of the Mother. Writing as a psychoanalytic practitioner, she shows what happens from the ground up when we use feminist questions to probe the psycho-social world and its lateral relations. In this pivotal text, Mitchell argues that the mother’s prohibition of her toddler attacking a new or expected sibling is a rite of passage from infancy to childhood: this is a foundational force structuring our later lateral relationships and social practices. Throughout the volume, Mitchell chooses the term 'Fratriarchy' to show that, as well as the up-down axis of fathers and sons, there is also the side-to-side interaction of sisters and brothers and their social heirs. Making use both critically and affirmatively of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Bion, Pontalis and others, Fratriarchy indicates how the collective social world matches the individual family world examined by established psychoanalysis. Decades on from Mitchell’s work on psychoanalysis and feminism which argued that feminism needed psychoanalysis to understand the position of women, Fratriarchy now asks psychoanalysis to take on board the developing practices and theories of global feminism. This volume will be essential reading for analysts, psychotherapists, psychologists and anyone who wants to re-think the ubiquity of unconscious processes. It will also interest students and teachers of social theory, psychoanalysis, group analysis, gender studies and feminism.

The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother

Fratriarchy

Woman's Estate

Ann Oakley

The progress in women's rights brought about by the feminist activism of the 1960s through the early 1980s is today confronted with a major political backlash. In this book, Carol Gilligan, Carolyn Heilbrun, and a distinguished, international group of feminist thinkers explore the diverse territories that feminist thought and activism have affected over recent years, and the new questions that have arisen during the process.

Seeing Through the Backlash

Who's Afraid of Feminism?

Examines woman's role in society, describing the politics of the varied liberation movements and their influence on the modern family.

Combining the energy of the early seventies feminist movement with the perceptive analyses of the trained theorist, Woman’s Estate is one of the most influential socialist feminist statements of its time. Scrutinizing the political background of the movement, its sources and its common ground with other radical manifestations of the sixties, Woman’s Estate describes the organization of women’s liberation in Western Europe and America. In this foundational text, Mitchell locates the areas of women’s oppression in four key areas: work, reproduction, sexuality and the socialization of children. Through a close study of the modern family and a re-evaluation of Freud’s work in this field, Mitchell paints a detailed picture of patriarchy in action.

This collection explores the diverse territories that feminist thought and activism have affected over recent years, and examines the backlash both against and within feminism, against change and the threat of change.

Nancy F. Cott

What is Feminism?

Siblings and all the lateral relationships that follow from them are clearly important and their interaction is widely observed, particularly in creative literature. Yet in the social, psychological and political sciences, there is no theoretical paradigm through which we might understand them. In the Western world our thought is completely dominated by a vertical model, by patterns of descent or ascent: mother or father to child, or child to parent. Yet our ideals are ‘liberty, equality and fraternity’ or the ‘sisterhood’ of feminism; our ethnic wars are the violence of ‘fratricide’. When we grow up, siblings feature prominently in sex, violence and the construction of gender differences but they are absent from our theories. This book examines the reasons for this omission and begins the search for a new paradigm based on siblings and lateral relationships. This book will be essential reading for those studying sociology, psychoanalysis and gender studies. It will also appeal to a wide general readership.

Sex and Violence

Siblings

Bundeling van essays, van de hand van historici, sociologen, onderwijzers en literarie critici, over de vraag of de vrouwenbeweging anno 1976 ondertussen gelijke rechten voor vrouwen heeft weten te bewerkstellingen. Hierin twee bijdragen over de onderwijspositie van vrouwen: Pauline Marks over de stereotypering van de vrouwenrol op school en hieruit volgend het minder presteren van meisjes (p. 176-199) en Tessa Blackstone over de verschillende benadering van meisjes en jongens door leerkrachten (p. 199-217). Het gebruikte cijfermateriaal en de bronnen zijn gedateerd.

The Rights and Wrongs of Women

In this eagerly anticipated new work, the author of the classic Psychoanalysis and Feminism argues that we must reclaim hysteria to have a full understanding of the human condition.

Juliet Mitchell

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