Research Catalog

Title

The mother-daughter relationship : echoes through time / edited by Gerd H. Fenchel.

Publication

Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fenchel, Gerd H.

Description

xviii, 355 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book explores the mother-daughter bond within the life cycle, from early development on into the turbulence of adolescence and the ambivalence of separation then to the daughter's marriage and maternity, and finally, thoughtfully, to reparative opportunities inherent in the mother's aging and dying.

Subject

• Mothers and daughters > Psychology
• Developmental psychology
• Life cycle, Human
• Mother-Child Relations > psychology
• Mutter
• Tochter
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Moeder-dochter-relaties
• Mothers and daughters > Psychological aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Gerd H. Fenchel -- pt. I. The Basics of Development. 1. Love, Admiration, and Identification: On the Intricacies of Mother-Daughter Relationships / Anni Bergman and Maria F. Fahey. 2. Some Thoughts on the Creation of Character / Ava L. Siegler. 3. Anne Sexton and Child Abuse / Arlene Kramer Richards. 4. Female Kin: Functions of the Meta-Identification of Womanhood / Judith B. Rosenberger -- pt. II. Adolescence. 5. "Die So That I May Live!": A Psychoanalytic Essay on the Adolescent Girl's Struggle to Delimit Her Identity / Anna Aragno. 6. Demeter and Persephone Revisited: Ambivalence and Separation in the Mother-Daughter Relationship / Molly Walsh Donovan -- pt. III. Marriage and Maternity.

ISBN

• 0765701014
• 9780765701015

LCCN

97014588

OCLC

• ocm36817122
• 36817122
• SCSB-14693775

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library