Main description:

Toronto has a distinguished international reputation for her work on women from a psychoanalytic perspective * Aspects of maternity are still an underexplored topic in psychoanalysis * Draws on Toronto's own work and other relevant thinkers to give the latest guidance to theory and practice around maternal subjectivity in analytic practice.

Contents:

Introduction 1. The Feminine Unconscious 2. The Application of Therapist's Maternal Capacity 3. Clytemnestra: A Mythical Madness 4. The Old Testament: Mother as Womb 5. Quilters: Remnants of Women's Lives 6. Old Testament Remnants in Psychoanalysis 7. Relational Theory and the "Absent Presence" 8. The Maternal Body in Psychoanalysis 9. A Theory of Matricide 10. The Case of Tina 11. If the Ego is a Body Ego... 12. Maternal Grief/Maternal Madness 13. Time Out of Mind: Dissociation in the Virtual World 14. Maternal Trauma 15. The Dissociated Maternal Self 16. An Eternal Enigma 17. Resolutions