Main description:

1. The new book for eminent analyst, Juliet Mitchell, looking at the sibling relationship
2. This important new book further develops her vital theory of The Law of the Mother, re-iterating her argument with more evidence for its structural importance in the psyche
3. In this book, Mitchell deftly extends psychoanalytical theory to include the social self and looks at how a new sibling in the family can be the source of extensive trauma in a young person

Contents:

Introduction Part 1: The Toddler's World 1. From the 'Sibling Trauma' to the 'Law of the Mother' 2. Taking It like a Toddler 3. From Toddling to Walking; from Speaking to Talking 4. From the 'Sibling Trauma' to the Horizontal Axis of Social Relations Part 2: Three Theories 5. Donald Winnicott: Narcissistic-Psychotic Development. Do Siblings Count? 6. Using Wilfred Bion: The Social and Its Models 7. Questioning Fraternity: J.-B. Pontalis - 'Death-Work' and Brother of the Above Epilogue to Part 2: The Social Child's World: Latency and No-Latency Part 3: Fratriarchy: Tomorrow, Today and Yesterday 8. Oedipal Sexual Difference 9. Horizontal 'Gender' and Bisexuality 10. Fratriarchy - Tomorrow, Today and Yesterday