Maternal Subjectivity

In this book, Ellen Toronto reveals the dissociation of maternal subjectivity from human experience and provides a psychoanalytic exploration of the (non-)history of motherhood to make possible an understanding and appreciation of maternal worlds.

Ellen Toronto is an author and psychoanalyst practicing in Spring, Texas. She has published extensively on gender issues and non-verbal communication. She is first editor of Into the Void: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on a Gender-Free Case and A Womb of Her Own. She and her husband have four sons and eleven grandchildren.

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