Ellen L K Toronto

Maternal Subjectivity

A Dissociated Self-State

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Ellen Toronto reveals the dissociation of maternal subjectivity from human experience and provides a psychoanalytic exploration of the (non-)history of motherhood to make possible an understanding and appreciation of maternal worlds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781032537955
• ISBN-10: 1032537957
• Artikelnr.: 67823564

Autorenporträt

Ellen Toronto is an author and psychoanalyst practicing in Spring, Texas. She has published extensively on gender issues and non-verbal communication. She is first editor of Into the Void: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Gender-Free Case and A Womb of Her Own. She and her husband have four sons and eleven grandchildren.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The Feminine Unconscious 2. The Application of Therapist's
Maternal Capacity 3. Clytemnestra: A Mythical Madness 4. The Old Testament:
Mother as Womb 5. Quilters: Remnants of Women's Lives 6. Old Testament
Remnants in Psychoanalysis 7. Relational Theory and the "Absent Presence"
8. The Maternal Body in Psychoanalysis 9. A Theory of Matricide 10. The
Case of Tina 11. If the Ego is a Body Ego... 12. Maternal Grief/Maternal
Madness 13. Time Out of Mind: Dissociation in the Virtual World 14.
Maternal Trauma 15. The Dissociated Maternal Self 16. An Eternal Enigma 17.
Resolutions