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This is the first chapter in an edited volume Juliet Mitchell and the Lateral Axis. It follows the trajectory of her theory of male hysteria, first set out in Mitchell's book Madmen and Medusas.

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This chapter provides an introduction to Mitchell's theory of the lateral axis, which is the focus of the rest of the volume.

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This page is a summary of: The Etiology of Hysteria in Mitchell’s Mad Men and Medusas, January 2015, Nature,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137367792_2.
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