Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barone-Chapman, Maryann

Titel

Through a Mother Monster

Ist Teil von

• Personal and Cultural Shadows of Late Motherhood, 2020, p.109-114

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Late motherhood is emerging as a symbol of early unrequited love with parental objects that ‘remains unconscious repetition occurs without understanding, a pattern is established for an endless cycle of repetitive non-generative activity’. The creation myth, ‘First Adam, then Eve’ applies to a life lived in two parts. Their need to tell the story of their journey toward motherhood took on a confessional quality, where ‘the body experiences of, childbirth and becoming mother fundamental, catalytic crises of selfhood’. The significance of delayed motherhood against lowered fertility rates in geographies with the longest history of industrialization, in terms of gender, culture and archetypal patterns has involved a closer look at psyche’s discontents and how they can undergo a transformation into a new consciousness. Most of the mothers represented among the participants who delayed motherhood, had been critical, disparaging their daughters as not competent enough to manage life, let alone motherhood.