Mothering & Psychoanalysis: Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives

Abstract

Mothering and Psychoanalysis brings together a vibrant collection of 21 critical, interdisciplinary perspectives on psychoanalysis, feminism, motherhood and sociology. In her engaging introduction, Petra Bueskens provides a comprehensive overview of the key debates in the field and their contemporary implications. The collection includes reprinted essays from important thinkers and international contributions from a diverse range of writers who offer fresh and original insights into psychoanalysis and mothering. The book represents some of the best of the new scholarship in maternal studies. Petra Bueskens is a Lecturer in Social Sciences within the School of Counselling at the Australian College of Applied Psychology. Publisher's note. Introduction / Petra Bueskens -- Interview Ilene Philipson / Ilene Philipson interviewed by Petra Bueskens -- Is therapy a form of paid mothering? / Petra Bueskens -- The "mother" in attachment theory and attachment in-formed psychotherapy / Dianna Kenny -- "There is no longer room for me on your lap": how being pregnant and becoming a mother impacts the therapy relationship / Elisabeth Shaw and Jan Breckenridge -- Maternally speaking: mothers, daughters, and the talking cure / Lynne Layton -- Dark animus: a psychodynamic interpretation of the consequences of diverted mothering among African-American daughters / S. Alease Ferguson and Toni C. King -- Mothers at the margins: psychodynamic therapy with mothers in the welfare system / Tony Talevski -- Melissa: lost in a fog: or "how difficult is this mommy stuff anyway?" / Maura Sheehy -- Too late: the reproduction and non-reproduction of mothering / Nancy Chodorow -- 'They've taken her!' Psychoanalytic perspectives on mediating maternity, feeling and loss / Caroline Bainbridge -- Framing the mother in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Babel / Penelope Ingram -- Fetish operations in the photographs of Sally Mann / Berkeley Kaite -- Artistic expressions of maternal Jouissance -- beyond the phallus / Hadara Scheflan Katzav -- Psychoanalysis and maternal subjectivity / Alison Stone -- Mothering the other: psychoanalytic understandings of be-coming a mother to a second child / Nollaig Frost -- Maternal ambivalence and "ideal mothering": can the two go together? / Rivka Tuval-Mashiach and Shirit Shaiovitz-Gourman -- Exploring the possibility of a positive maternal subjectivity: an introduction to Lisa Baraitser's Maternal encounters: the ethics of interruption / Julie Rodgers -- Mapping the mother in France and India: cross-cultural applications of psychoanalytic theory / Anu Aneja -- The tyranny of intimacy: the intersection of feminism and therapy culture -- excerpt from Saving the modern soul: therapy, emotions and the culture of self-help / Eva Illouz -- Beyond the paradigm war: good psychotherapy is sociological / Petra Bueskens -- Mum's the word: therapy culture and maternal ambivalence / Katie Wright -- Globalization, psychoanalysis, and the provision of care: commentary on Arlie Hochschild's and Barbara Ehrenreich's Global woman / Steven Botticelli -- Maternal publics: time, relationality and the public sphere / Lisa Baraitser.