Mother Love/Mother Hate: The Power of Maternal Ambivalence - Hardcover

Parker, Rozsika

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465086616 ISBN 13: 9780465086610

Verlag: Basic Books, 1996

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Book by Parker Rozsika

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Reseña del editor:

Many a loving mother has had fleeting feelings of hatred toward her children - the desire to hurl a howling baby out the window or to lock a teenager out of the house. In this provocative book, Rozsika Parker argues that these ambivalent feelings not only are common but can actually have a creative impact on mothering.
Mother Love/Mother Hate boldly illustrates how a mother's desire for devotion coexists with the impulse to hurt and desert. Parents will find Parker's insight into the conflicts that beset them illuminating and deeply reassuring. Reversing the conventional psychoanalytic approach, in which maternal ambivalence has been understood chiefly from the point of view of the child, this book gives precedence to the mother's perspective. Drawing on interviews with mothers, clinical material from her practice as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a wide range of psychoanalytic and literary sources (including Virginia Woolf, Anne Tyler, Simone de Beauvoir, D. W. Winnicott, Melanie Klein, and John Bowlby), Parker explores experiences of maternal ambivalence in a culture painfully and profoundly uneasy about its very existence.

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This groundbreaking book boldly illustrates how a mother's desire for devotion coexists with the impulse to hurt and desert, and sheds new light on hot topics such as postpartum depression, child abuse, and child abandonment.

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• Verlag: Basic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0465086616
• ISBN 13: 9780465086610
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320