Fratriarchy The Sibling Trauma And The Law Of The Mother Juliet Mitchell by Juliet Mitchell 9781032388533, 1032388536 instant download after payment.

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 affrmatively 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.

Juliet Mitchell FBA is a psychoanalyst, socialist feminist, emeritus professor and author.