Siblings

Thinking Theory

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5833503
AutoresJuliet Mitchell (autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume67
Fascículo1
Páginas14-34
Data de publicação2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0079-7308 • E-ISSN: 2474-3356
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00797308.2014.11785486
PMID26072555
OpenAlexW216829468
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas8

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJuliet MitchellProfessor Juliet Mitchell, Fellow of the British Academy, is currently an Emeritus Leverhulme Fellow. She is also a Professor in the Ph.D. program in Theoretical Psychoanalysis, which she established at University College London; Emeritus Professor at the University of Cambridge; Founder-Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, Cambridge; and Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association.NotesFreud's notion of "the narcissism of minor differences" can be seen as one psychological effect that results from this "minimal difference": Social amity is preserved through hostility to the closest neighboring group.Address to the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 11 September 1933 (in Kaempffert 1933, p. 13).Prophecy Coles asserts the opposite viewpoint: "What is different between an only child and a child with siblings is the texture of their inner world. By that I mean, there is much more 'noise' in the inner world of someone who has several siblings. In my experience, the inner world of an only child is quieter, their dreams are less populated by events with a lot of people and the transference experience is different" (2003 Coles, P. (2003). The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis. London: Karnac. [Google Scholar], p. 6). If this is so, then I think that Coles is listening to the preconscious, "secondary process" story. Compare Klein's footnote to "Erna": "As Erna had no brothers or sisters in real life, her unconscious fear and jealousy of them which played such an important part in her mental life were only revealed through the analysis. This is once more an example of the importance of the transference-situation in child analysis" (1932/1975 Klein, M. (1932/1975). The Psycho-Analysis of Children. London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis. [Google Scholar], p.42, n. 1).For the sake of simplicity, in the next section I mainly write as though there is an actual sibling, as indeed there was in the case material I use.Volkan and Ast (1997), in their excellent Siblings in the Unconscious, refer to the experience as sometimes "difficult," sometimes "traumatic.".Above, I have suggested that fathers exchange their children; Freud makes brothers do their own exchanging. Below I suggest that both happen. The question is one for anthropology-but it is not likely to be answered, as in that discipline too, brothers are potential fathers. The work of Annette Weiner (1992 Weiner, A. B. (1992). Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) initiated for anthropology the kind of analytical distinction I am trying to draw for psychoanalysis

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