Abstract

LOBO, Silvia. The conditions of the Appearance of the “Good Enough Mother”. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2008, vol.42, n.4, pp. 67-74. ISSN 0486-641X.

This paper attempts to consider the possibilities of constituting the conditions leading to the appearance of the “good enough mother” within the subjectivity of women. It chooses History as its reference, considering it as the past in process, and collects fragments of the development of ideas about the human body, about the conception of babies and aobut the concept of mother within Psychoanalysis through Freud, Melanie Klein and Winnicott. Through this path, in a succinct and limited manner, it endorses the words of Castoriadis when it claims that “the mother, who cares and nurtures, even through the way she nurtures and cares, is the History of over three million years of hominization”. Finally, it proposes that the relationship of women with their body, their sexuality and maternity is closely linked to the experience of the relationship with mothers, both their own as well as those who preceded them in the generational transmission.

Keywords : History; “Good enough mother”; Generational transmission; Femininity.

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