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In her book Mad Men and Medusas (2000), Mitchell starts with an exploration of male hysteria and ends with the discovery of the importance of siblings, and the subsequent need for a lateral “sibling” axis, to complement Freud’s vertical “parent-child” axis. The aim of this chapter is to outline the complex arc of this theoretical development, starting with Freud’s original theory.
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Walker, S. (2015). The Etiology of Hysteria in Mitchell’s Mad Men and Medusas. In: Duschinsky, R., Walker, S. (eds) Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis. Palgrave Macmillan’s Critical Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137367792_2
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