Mad Men And Medusas

by Mitchell, Juliet

• ISBN13: 9780465046140
• ISBN10: 0465046142
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-23
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

This worthy successor to Mitchell's pathbreaking 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 poer relationships.

Author Biography

Juliet Mitchell, the author of Psychoanalysis and Feminism, is currently a visiting professor in Comparative Literature at Yale University, where she is also a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. She is a university lecturer in Gender and Society at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Jesus College. She lives in London and Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xiii
Hysteria
A Brief History: Past and Present	1	(18)
Hysteria and Psychoanalysis	19	(24)
Sigmund Freud: A Fragment of a Case of Hysteria in a Male	43	(39)
Dora: A Fragment of a Case of Hysteria in a Female	82	(27)
Where Has All the Hysteria Gone?	109	(25)
Sexuality, Death And Reproduction	134	(183)
From Hysteria to Motherhood
The Male Hysteric And The Rise Of Object Relations Theory	159	(27)
The Hysterical Woman Or Hysteria Feminized	186	(17)
Emptiness and Possession
The Body-Mind of Hysteria	203	(29)
The Gendering of Possession	232	(14)
The Hysterical Lie
Don Juan and The Normalization of Male Hysteria	246	(21)
`Honest Iago' and Diabolical Speech	267	(13)
Trauma
Hysteria, Memory and Trauma	280	(18)
Where Am I? Trauma and the Question of Recognition	298	(19)
Hysteria: From Catastrophe to Trauma	317	(30)
Notes	347	(6)
Selected Bibliography	353	(12)
Index	365