Abstract
In Siblings (2003, 19), Mitchell suggests that “the introduction of a lateral paradigm reframes the classical neuroses.” The truth of this claim has been well demonstrated by Mitchell’s work on hysteria. However, the advance represented by the introduction of the lateral axis has yet to be applied to obsessional neurosis. At the level of the relationship between the ego and the drive, both hysteria and obsessional neuroses are constellations of defences against the Oedipus complex. Freud ([1896a] 2001, 146) was the first to declare the need to “set alongside of hysteria the obsessional neurosis as a self-sufficient and independent disorder.” Yet he also at points treated obsessional neurosis as if it were a branch of hysteria, and throughout his writings he would observe important parallels as well as contrasts between the two disorders. If, indeed, “the language of an obsessional neurosis—the means by which it expresses its secret thoughts—is, as it were, only a dialect of the language of hysteria” ([1909a] 2001, 196–7), then insights from Mitchell’s analysis of the latter neurosis may well help shed light on the former.
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Duschinsky, R., Leigh, R. (2015). Reframing Obsessional Neurosis: The Rat Man’s Siblings. 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_9
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