{"product_id":"the-mothers-hands-desire-fantasy-and-the-inheritance-of-the-maternal-hardback-9781509531677","title":"The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal (Hardback) 9781509531677","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMassimo Recalcati (Author), Alice Kilgarriff (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509531677, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 April 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.1 x 13.5 x 2 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘This book from one of Italy’s most popular public intellectuals turns our conventional understanding of motherly love on its head, encouraging a complete rethink of what motherhood means today. Written with Recalcati’s typical flair and sagacity, it will be of interest to a very wide readership.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDany Nobus, Brunel University, London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘In this poetic and thought-provoking book, Massimo Recalcati explores the many images of the mother to be found in both psychoanalysis and popular culture, urging a questioning of the prejudices and clichés that are so often taken for granted. Without downplaying the complexity and ambivalences of the mother–child relation, he emphasises the positive, life-giving transmission of the mother, and shows us with clarity and elegance the many levels at which this operates.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDarian Leader, Psychoanalyst, Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecalcati 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Mother’s Desire\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hands\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Wait\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Face\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLalangue\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Breast\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbsence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParanoia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Name\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCare\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranscendence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Mother’s Shadow\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Two Mothers and Solomon’s Ruling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWanting to Have a Child\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaternal Anxiety\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Child as Object\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mother’s Refusal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Primary Perversion’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mother’s Enjoyment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnge Duroc\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mother-as-Crocodile\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Narcissistic Mother\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Fugitive Mother\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Medea Complex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMommy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Mother’s Inheritance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaternal Power\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Maternal Sentence\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaternal Inheritance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dead Mother\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMother and Daughter\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFailure of Inheritance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRavage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eViolence and Resignation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mother’s Solitude\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Successful Inheritance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441793757464,"sku":"9781509531677","price":31.28,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509531677.jpg?v=1785025580","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mothers-hands-desire-fantasy-and-the-inheritance-of-the-maternal-hardback-9781509531677","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}