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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.
Contents
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
