What's the Emergency in Maternal Emergence? A Response to Hoskins-Murphy's "Close to the Bone".
In response to Nicola Hoskins-Murphy's paper, I wonder about the limitations of and contradictions embedded in the formulation of a maternal that requires foreclosure of a longed-for emergence of self and endless sacrifice in service of meeting the child's needs, and I offer a framework for a meta-e...
| Published in: | Psychoanalytic Dialogues Vol. 33; no. 6; pp. 837 - 847 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov/Dec2023
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