Mothering and Psychoanalysis : Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (515 pages)
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.