Siblings Sex and Violence

Name: Siblings Sex and Violence
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ISBN: 9780745632216

ISBN-10: 0745632211

ISBN-13: 9780745632216

Edition: 2003

Authors: Juliet Mitchell

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Siblings and all the lateral relationships that follow from them are clearly important and their interaction is widely observed, particularly in creative literature. Yet in the social, psychological and political sciences, there is no theoretical paradigm through which we might understand them. In the Western world our thought is completely dominated by a vertical model, by patterns of descent or ascent: mother or father to child, or child to parent. Yet our ideals are 'liberty, equality and fraternity' or the 'sisterhood' of feminism; our ethnic wars are the violence of 'fratricide'.When we grow up, siblings feature prominently in sex, violence and the construction of gender differences…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 12/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Preface



Siblings and Psychoanalysis: an Overview



Did Oedipus have a Sister?



Sister-Brother/Brother-Sister Incest



Looking Sideways: 'A Child is being Beaten'



The Difference between Gender and Sexual Difference



Who's been Sitting in My Chair?



Attachment and Maternal Deprivation: How did John Bowlby Miss the Siblings?



In our Own Times: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis and Social Change



Conclusion: Siblings and the Engendering of Gender


Notes


References and Select Bibliography


Index