Personal and cultural shadows of late motherhood : Jungian psychoanalytic views / Maryann Barone-Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barone-Chapman, Maryann, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle-aged mothers.

Motherhood--Psychological aspects.

Motherhood.

Older parents.

Physical Description:

xx, 130 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Personal and Cultural Shadows of Late Motherhood explores the topic of delayed motherhood from a Jungian psychoanalytic perspective, using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, including interview transcripts, diaries, dreams, and the Jungian Word Association Test. It provides a unique contribution to our understanding of the pressures faced by women today on the topic of delayed motherhood. We may consider an affect to be in place when a woman allows her relationship to her body and its procreative capacity to slip away from consciousness, only to awaken at a point when redeeming her past choices becomes a hunger. This book delves into personal, cultural and collective spheres of influence that have been split off waiting for the right moment to reintegrate. Working with Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis and Jung's Word Association Test, the author identifies aspects of the psyche arousing late procreative desire and considers the differing accounts of maternal and paternal parents, alongside the effect of growing up beside a male sibling. The book examines women's procreative identity in midlife, identifies complexes of a personal, cultural and collective nature and considers how the role of mother is psychosocially performed, taking in feminist psychoanalytical thinking as well as Queer theory to explore new meanings for late motherhood. This book will be of great interest to clinicians, researchers, academics and postgraduate students of Jungian psychoanalysis, gender theory, psychosocial studies, and motherhood"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Return to Mother p. 1

2 Forgetting, Then Remembering p. 11

3 A Method Out Of Madness: Ethics p. 24

4 Intersubjective Spaces p. 39

5 Living In The Shadow p. 48

6 Meetings With The Unconscious p. 67

7 Trauma and Transformation p. 87

8 Creation and Destruction p. 100

9 Through a Mother Monster p. 109.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781138349766

1138349763

9781138349780

113834978X

OCLC:

1108555999