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The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal

Massimo Recalcati (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

200 Seiten

2019
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-3167-7 (ISBN)

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In this book the bestselling author and psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati offers a fundamental re-examination of what ‘being a mother’ means today, in a world where new social and sexual freedoms mean that motherhood is no longer the sole destiny of women. Questioning the belief that a mother’s love is natural and unconditional, he paints a more complex and troubling picture of the mother–child relationship, observing that mothers may even resent their children as a result of unresolved conflicts between different dimensions of love. The mother’s hands not only nurture but can also potentially harm. Recalcati argues that it is precisely in these competing demands that motherhood fulfils its function: only if the mother is ‘not-all-mother’ can a child experience the absence that enables it to access the symbolic and cultural world.

Recalcati cuts through conventional wisdom to offer a fresh perspective on the changing nature of motherhood today. An international bestseller, this book will appeal to a wide general readership, as well as to students and scholars of gender studies, psychoanalysis and related disciplines.

Massimo Recalcati is a psychoanalyst and author who teaches at the universities of Pavia and Verona.

Introduction Notes

1 The Mother’s Desire

The Hands

The Wait

The Face

Lalangue

The Breast

Absence

Desire

Paranoia

The Name

Care

Transcendence

Notes

2 The Mother’s Shadow

The Two Mothers and Solomon’s Ruling

Wanting to Have a Child

Maternal Anxiety

The Child as Object

The Mother’s Refusal

‘Primary Perversion’

The Mother’s Enjoyment

Ange Duroc

The Mother-as-Crocodile

The Narcissistic Mother

A Fugitive Mother

The Medea Complex

Mommy

Notes

3 The Mother’s Inheritance

Maternal Power

The Maternal Sentence

Maternal Inheritance

The Dead Mother

Mother and Daughter

Failure of Inheritance

Ravage

Violence and Resignation

The Mother’s Solitude

A Successful Inheritance

Notes

Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2019
Übersetzer	Alice Kilgarriff
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 201 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Familien- / Systemische Therapie
ISBN-10	1-5095-3167-X / 150953167X
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-3167-7 / 9781509531677
Zustand	Neuware