The Undead Mother

by Christina Wieland

Overview

'A state of mourning is something that the late Twentieth Century has been uniquely unable to achieve. A culture based on the interchangeability of products and people, and a throw-away culture, is not conducive to mourning...Inanimate objects have replaced human ideals. A culture of 'virtual reality' which finds it difficult to distinguish between

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367329037
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/29/2019
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Christina Wieland is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice and a fellow of the University of Essex, teaching at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies. She has a special interest in psychoanalysis, gender and culture, and has published numerous papers in this area.

Table of Contents

A Note on Texts — Introduction — Clytemnestra and Count Dracula — Matricide and the Oedipus Complex — Masculinity and Matricide — Masculinity, Femininity, and the Death Instinct — Freud and Femininity — Mothers and Daughters — Matricide and the Mother-Daughter Relationship — The Father-Daughter Romance — Beauty and the Beast: the Father-Daughter Relationship — Aggression and Femininity — Two Women in the Consulting-Room — The Search for an Alternative Space

Editorial Reviews

According to clinical and literary interpretations by a British psychotherapist influenced by Melanie Klein, the Western psyche is based on matricide figuratively by denying the mother's power. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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