Mothers and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity
Mothers and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity challenges the theory of the Oedipus complex, which permeates psychoanalytic theory, psychology, semiotics and cultural studies. The book focuses on the re-examination of women’s development through the theories of primitive mental states.
Women’s subjectivity has been profoundly limited by continuing anxieties about the mother’s body. Ja...
Mothers and Daughters and the Origins of Female Subjectivity challenges the theory of the Oedipus complex, which permeates psychoanalytic theory, psychology, semiotics and cultural studies. The book focuses on the re-examination of women’s development through the theories of primitive mental states.
Women’s subjectivity has been profoundly limited by continuing anxieties about the mother’s body. Ja...
