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Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Maternal Subjectivity

This output’s scope and theoretical complexity required a research effort in excess of that required to produce two ‘regular’ outputs. It is a substantial monograph (90,000 words) advancing a set of interrelated theses about the self, culture, modernity, and maternity while re-interpreting and synthesising a wide range of theoretical materials, encompassing psychoanalysis in both the Anglo-American and Continental traditions, contemporary feminist theory, and philosophical conceptions of self and subjectivity. The book combines sustained theoretical work in psychoanalysis and philosophy with interpretation of diverse examples spanning classical myth and literature, art, fiction and life-writing by mothers, and psychoanalytic case studies.