Kardeşler: Cinsellik ve Şiddet

by Juliet Mitchell, Billur C. Yılmazyiğit (Translator)

Klasik psikanalizin dikey bakış açısıyla, kişilik gelişiminde belirleyici olan, aile dinamikleri, yani ebeveynlerin çocuk üzerindeki etkileridir. Mitchell bu kitabında, bu dikey bakış açısının kısıtlılıklarına dikkat çekerek, kuşaklar içi yatay bir eksen olarak kardeş dinamiklerinin belirleyici rolünü anlamamızı sağlıyor. Her tür toplumsal yapının ve ruhsal açıdan ebeveyn ve çocuk ilişkilerini de içeren tüm toplumsal ilişkilerin temelinde kardeşlerin olduğunu öne sürdüğü bu çalışmasında Mitchell, her kitabında olduğu gibi yine alışılmadık bir işe kalkışarak, psikanalizin şimdiye kadar tuhaf bir şekilde ihmal ettiği kardeş dinamiklerine hak ettiği merkezî konumunu vermeye çalışıyor. Psikanaliz, psikoterapi, çocuk gelişimi gibi alanlara ek olarak cinsel kimlik ve rol gelişimi üzerine ilgi duyan herkesin faydalanabileceği bir kitap Kardeşler.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Feminism

272 pages, Paperback

First published November 3, 2003

About the author

Juliet Mitchell, FBA (born 1940) is a British psychoanalyst and socialist feminist.

Mitchell was born in New Zealand in 1940, and moved to England in 1944. She attended St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a degree in English, as well as doing postgraduate work. She taught English literature from 1962 to 1970 at Leeds University and Reading University. Throughout the 1960s, Mitchell was active in leftist politics, and was on the editorial committee of the journal, New Left Review.

She was a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at Cambridge University, before in 2010 being appointed to be the Director of the Expanded Doctoral School in Psychoanalytic Studies at Psychoanalysis Unit of University College London (UCL).

She is a retired registrant of the British Psychoanalytic Council.

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Reviews

[Fallen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mitchell provides invaluable insights into siblingship being distinct in and of itself, as opposed to an alternative or surrogate for oedipal theory. Her comprehensive, concise perspective on historical psychoanalytic case studies and theories is articulated in accessible language and respects that are relevant to both classic theorists and contemporaries. The deconstruction of narcissism, self-concept, and self-reference is key here as Mitchell demonstrates a significance that is not simply clinical, but discursive. This enables readers to grasp the importance of siblings whose esteems underlay our egos and sociological imagination.

[×× ri ×× · Rating 3 out of 5]

how shall i put it..... whenever i read psychoanalytic literature it feels as if I'm being trapped on a train with an erratic uncle who spews his wildest takes and every now and then i can't help but go "huh??? what are you talking about?...." but it's indeed sometimes interesting and it Makes You Think ("siblings provide a way of learning to love and hate the same person", etc. Mitchell's writing is pretty straightforward which i appreciated 👍👍👍

[Carrie McGath · Rating 5 out of 5]

Especially excellent if interested in psychology of aggression.