Schwestern

Psychoanalysis seemed to want to know nothing about this. This book breaks with its silence. It introduces the concept of sisterhood into psychoanalysis and at the same time argues for a feminism that owns up to its own drive-ridden, traumatic, mad components.

Its guide is a woman – lesbian, schizophrenic, criminal: Valerie Solanas. She imagines a world founded solely on relations between women – a world of sisters. Yet sisterhood is not limited to relations between persons already identified as women. It is a kind of social bond, woven directly from our respective traumas into a jointly created form: a »geteiltes Symptom«.

By laying the foundations of a sororal psychoanalysis, this book addresses itself to all who want to think, feel and live beyond the imaginaries of male domination.