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The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond - Matricide and Maternal Subjectivity (Hardcover)
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The Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond - Matricide and Maternal Subjectivity (Hardcover)
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The question of what it means to be a mother is a very contentious
topic in psychoanalysis and in wider society. The Mother in
Psychoanalysis and Beyond explores our relationship to the maternal
through psychoanalysis, philosophy, art and political and gender
studies. Over two years, a group of psychotherapists and members of
the public met at the Philadelphia Association for a series of
seminars on the Maternal. In the discussions that followed, a chasm
opened up slowly and painfully between the idealised longings and
fantasies we all share and the realities of maternal experiences:
here were met the great silences of love, loss, longing, memories,
desire, hatred and ambivalence. This book is the result of this
bringing together in conversation and reflections of what so often
seems unsayable about the Mother. It examines how issues of
personal and gender identity are shaped by the ideals of separation
from the mother, the fears and anxiety of merging with the mother,
and how this has often led, in psychoanalysis and society, to
holding mothers responsible for a variety of personal and social
ills and problems in which maternal vulnerability is denied and
silenced. There are two main themes running throughout the book:
Matricide and Maternal Subjectivity. On the theme of matricide,
several contributors discuss the ways in which the discourse and
narratives of the Mother have been silenced on a sociocultural
level and within psychoanalysis and philosophy in favour of
discourses that promote independence, autonomy, power and the
avoidance and denial of our fundamental helplessness and
vulnerability. On the theme of maternal subjectivity, several
chapters look at the actual experience of mothering and/or our
relationship to our mother, to highlight the ways in which the
maternal is intimately connected with human subjectivity. The
Mother in Psychoanalysis and Beyond provides new and provocative
thinking about the maternal and its place in various contemporary
discourses. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and
psychologists of different schools, scholars and advanced students
of art, gender studies, politics and philosophy as well as anyone
interested in maternity studies and the relationship between the
maternal and human subjectivity.
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