Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis

Judith Butler, University of California, USAGillian Harkins, University of Washington, USADaru Huppert, Viennese Psychoanalytical Society, AustriaRachel Leigh, Cambridge Lehrhaus Centre for Jewish Thought, USAJacqueline Rose, Queen Mary University, UKGayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University, USAPreti Taneja, University of London , UK Paul Verhaeghe, Ghent University, Belgium

"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

• 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