Mothering and psychoanalysis : clinical, sociological and feminist perspectives / edited by Petra Bueskens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bueskens, Petra, 1972- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--Psychological aspects.

Motherhood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 504 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2014]

Summary:

"The collection of 23 essays provides an exciting snapshot of contemporary theorising on the maternal within psychoanalytic and social theory. The introduction serves as an excellent overview of this interdisciplinary field and its importance both to motherhood studies and broader feminist thinking. This book is a triumph!" --Assistant Professor Julie Kelso, Department of Philosophy and Literature, Bond University

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright

Table of Contents

Dedications

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section I: The Therapist as Mother

1. Interview with Ilene Philipson

2. Is Therapy a Form of Paid Mothering?

3. The "Mother" in Attachment Theory and Attachment Informed Psychotherapy

4. "There is No Longer Room for Me on your Lap"

Section II: The Mother in Therapy

5. Maternally Speaking

6. Dark Animus

7. Mothers at the Margins

8. Melissa: Lost in a Fog

9. Too late

Section III: Mothers in Art and Culture

10. 'They've taken her!'

11. Framing the Mother in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's

12. Mothers at the Margins

13. Artistic Expressions of Maternal Jouissance- Beyond the Phallus

Section IV: Mothers in Theory and Practice

14. Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity

15. Mothering the Other

16. Maternal Ambivalence and "Ideal Mothering"

17. Exploring the Possibility of a Positive Maternal Subjectivity

18. Mapping the Mother in France and India

Section V: Mothering, Therapy Culture and the Social

19. The Tyranny of Intimacy

20. Beyond the Paradigm War

21. Mum's the Word

22. Globalization, Psychoanalysis, and the Provision of Care

23. Maternal Publics

24. Contributors Biographies.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-927335-99-X