Little Brother, Little Sister
Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen: Hysteria, 24 May 2001
Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Effects of Sibling Relationships on the Human Condition
by Juliet Mitchell.
Penguin, 381 pp., £9.99, December 2000,0 14 017651 9 Show More
by Juliet Mitchell.
Penguin, 381 pp., £9.99, December 2000,
“... never anything more than a local theory, whose fate is tied to a ‘transient mental illness’ (Ian Hacking) corresponding to very specific cultural and historical conditions? Mitchell’s revisionist theory attempts to address this objection, by recentring the discussion on Freud’s self-analysis: yes, hysteria may well have disappeared from the ... ”