Healthy Maternal Ambivalence

This paper critically reviews the psychoanalytic omission in theorizing maternal subjectivity and the subsequent idealisation of the early mother-baby bond that excludes negative maternal feelings. It suggests that painful maternal experiences of resentment, persecution and hatred remain under-explo...

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Main Author: Renaud Beeckmans
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2010-01-01
Series:Studies in the Maternal
Online Access:https://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/4096/