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

ISBN-13: 9781509531677 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str.

Massimo Recalcati

Recenzje

'This book from one of Italy's most popular public intellectuals turns our conventional understanding of motherly love on its head, encouraging a complete rethink of what motherhood means today. Written with Recalcati's typical flair and sagacity, it will be of interest to a very wide readership.'Dany Nobus, Brunel University, London'In this poetic and thought-provoking book, Massimo Recalcati explores the many images of the mother to be found in both psychoanalysis and popular culture, urging a questioning of the prejudices and clichés that are so often taken for granted. Without downplaying the complexity and ambivalences of the mother-child relation, he emphasises the positive, life-giving transmission of the mother, and shows us with clarity and elegance the many levels at which this operates.'Darian Leader, Psychoanalyst, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research

Spis treści

* Introduction* 1. The Mother's Desire* The Hands; The Wait; The Face; Lalangue; The Breast; Absence; Desire; Paranoia; The Name; Care; Transcendence* 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* 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* Epilogue: Being Fair To The Mother* Notes*

O autorze

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