Name: The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal
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Author: Massimo Recalcati
ISBN: 9781509531684

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The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal

Type

Physical Book

Author

Massimo Recalcati

Publisher

Polity Pr

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

200

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781509531684

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal "

In this book the bestselling author and psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati offers a fundamental re-examination of what 'being a mother' means today, in a world where new social and sexual freedoms mean that motherhood is no longer the sole destiny of women. Questioning the belief that a mother's love is natural and unconditional, he paints a more complex and troubling picture of the mother-child relationship, observing that mothers may even resent their children as a result of unresolved conflicts between different dimensions of love. The mother's hands not only nurture but can also potentially harm. Recalcati argues that it is precisely in these competing demands that motherhood fulfils its function: only if the mother is 'not-all-mother' can a child experience the absence that enables it to access the symbolic and cultural world. Recalcati cuts through conventional wisdom to offer a fresh perspective on the changing nature of motherhood today. An international bestseller, this book will appeal to a wide general readership, as well as to students and scholars of gender studies, psychoanalysis and related disciplines.

Massimo Recalcati

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Massimo Recalcati (1959) is a prominent psychoanalyst, director of the Institute for Research in Applied Psychoanalysis and regular contributor to La Repubblica; he is also one of the most prestigious and widely read essayists in his country. He teaches, at the University of Pavia, psychopathology of eating behavior, a topic on which he has written several reference books. At Anagrama, he has published The Telemachus Complex: Parents and Children after the Decline of the Progenitor, It's Not Like Before: Praise of Forgiveness in Love Life, The Hour of the Class: For an Erotics of Teaching, The Hands of the Mother: Desire, Phantoms and Legacy of the Maternal, The Secret of the Son: From Oedipus to the Recovered Son, The Taboos of the World: Figures and Myths of the Sense of Limit and its Violation, Hold the Kiss: Brief Lessons on Love, The Night of Gethsemane, and The Light of Dead Stars: Essay on Mourning and Nostalgia.

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