juliet mitchell'in kardeşler işareti ve yasa anlayışı üzerine freud metni bağlamında bazı notlar*

Juliette Mitchell, in her lately published essays and books on sib- lings and the concept of “law of the mother”, emphasizes the importance of siblings and siblinghood on the structuration of the psyche. Elaborating from that idea, she states that violence among siblings and incest are banned with the prohibition of the mother who leads siblings to learn to not to attack each other. Mitchell places the “law of the mother” that operates horizontally within generations by force of the prohibition of the mother against incestual and violent desires; versus Freudian/Lacanian “law of the father” that she claims to be operating in a vertical level among generations.

Mitchell's point, attitude and way of thinking are quite interesting as they open a window into a new perspective. However, the text of Freud which Mitchell reverberated is quite limited, narrowed down and even oversimplified. In this article, there will be a trial to give back to the text of Freud its voice and potential which is at least incomplete and at most narrowed in Mitchell's discussion. Through this attempt some critics such as -the assumption that the conceptualization of “the law of the mother” is, in a way regressive, because it loses Freud's dialectical perspective- will be made. This essay could also be read as a study of Freud's works’ potential references to siblinghood and as an expansion of the lecture of his work on law along with a discussion of it with regard to siblinghood.