Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria

by Juliet Mitchell

Book Overview

This worthy successor to Psychoanalysis and Feminism is both a defense of the long-dismissed diagnosis of hysteria as a centerpiece of the human condition and a plea for a new understanding of the influence of sibling and peer relationships. Juliet Mitchell argues that, because it our first social relationship, the sibling relationship is crucial to development, and that it is a critical failure of psychoanalysis and other psychological theories of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465046142
• ISBN13: 9780465046140
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"