Man has great difficulty accepting who he is. In Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love and Sexuality, author Gerd H. Fenchel traces how we have defined ourselves historically and in the present culture through the lenses of religion, poetry, art, and clinical psychoanalysis.

This book explores the mother-daughter bond within the life cycle, from early development on into the turbulence of adolescence and the ambivalence of separation then to the daughter's marriage and maternity, and finally, thoughtfully, to reparative opportunities inherent in the mother's aging and dying.