Mad Men And Medusas

2008-01-06 Psychology

Author : Juliet Mitchell
Release : 2008-01-06
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book Mad Men And Medusas written by Juliet Mitchell. This book was released on 2008-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 development to obscure and ignore the importance of siblings and peers. In Mad Men and Medusas Mitchell traces the history of hysteria from the Greek "wandering womb" to modern-day psychiatric diagnoses, arguing that we need to reclaim hysteria to understand how distress and trauma express themselves in different societies and different times. Using fascinating examples from anthropology, Freud's case studies, literature, and her own clinical practice, Mitchell convincingly demonstrates that while hysteria may have disappeared as a disease, it is still a critical factor in understanding psychological development through the life cycle.

Mad Men and Medusas

2000 Brothers and sisters

Author : Juliet Mitchell
Release : 2000
Genre : Brothers and sisters
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Download or read book Mad Men and Medusas written by Juliet Mitchell. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hysteria has usually been seen as a female disease. This culturally universal condition was fully diagnosed by Freud, with his famous case-study of the eighteen-year-old hysteric, 'Dora'. But when First World War soldiers also began to suffer from this unmanly disorder, the term was dropped. According to modern diagnoses, hysteria no longer exists, yet here Juliet Michell shows that it is still just as much with us today, but under other names - trauma, panic attacks, anorexia, multiple personalities, even Gulf War Syndrome. While not contesting the importance of the Oedipal complex, Mitchell argues that its discovery has blocked our understanding of hysteria. She proposes a different order, one that implicates siblings, the great omission in both psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. Understanding hysteria in this way is vital to understanding the human condition.

The Dove in the Consulting Room

2004-06-02 Psychology

Author : Greg Mogenson
Release : 2004-06-02
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 563/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Dove in the Consulting Room written by Greg Mogenson. This book was released on 2004-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date discussion of the fate of psychoanalysis at the end of the millennium and the beginning of a new century Covers topical areas of spirituality, and a return to hysteria by psychoanalysis Reflects on case material rather than the typical use of myths and cultural phenomenon A replay of the Freud-Jung encounter, 'marriage' and 'divorce' Takes a Jungian, or post-Jungian vantage point throughout and from this stance provides a critique of psychoanalytic ideas

The Generation of Postmemory

2012 Art

Author : Marianne Hirsch
Release : 2012
Genre : Art
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Download or read book The Generation of Postmemory written by Marianne Hirsch. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we remember other people's memories? The Generation of Postmemory argues we can: that memories of traumatic events live on to mark the lives of those who were not there to experience them. Children of survivors and their contemporaries inherit catastrophic histories not through direct recollection but through haunting postmemories--multiply mediated images, objects, stories, behaviors, and affects passed down within the family and the culture at large. In these new and revised critical readings of the literary and visual legacies of the Holocaust and other, related sites of memory, Marianne Hirsch builds on her influential concept of postmemory. The book's chapters, two of which were written collaboratively with the historian Leo Spitzer, engage the work of postgeneration artists and writers such as Art Spiegelman, W.G. Sebald, Eva Hoffman, Tatana Kellner, Muriel Hasbun, Anne Karpff, Lily Brett, Lorie Novak, David Levinthal, Nancy Spero and Susan Meiselas. Grappling with the ethics of empathy and identification, these artists attempt to forge a creative postmemorial aesthetic that reanimates the past without appropriating it. In her analyses of their fractured texts, Hirsch locates the roots of the familial and affiliative practices of postmemory in feminism and other movements for social change. Using feminist critical strategies to connect past and present, words and images, and memory and gender, she brings the entangled strands of disparate traumatic histories into more intimate contact. With more than fifty illustrations, her text enables a multifaceted encounter with foundational and cutting edge theories in memory, trauma, gender, and visual culture, eliciting a new understanding of history and our place in it.

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