"Lost in a Fog, or "How Difficult Is This Mommy Stuff, Anyway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4577297 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maura Sheehy (IS practice, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-7 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Gender and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1524-0657 • E-ISSN: 1940-9206 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15240657.2011.536040 |
| OpenAlex | W2468697127 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Interpellation is not only a function of public life. It is also at home. Here Maura Sheehy works with Melissa, a young mother, who, just like her analyst, struggles with the multiple interpellations of motherhood. Abjected as well as idealized, motherhood produces both exaltation and utter confused misery for both. As the treatment proceeds, we witness analyst's and patient's common search for intelligibility, a parallel process in which the analyst finds/sees how both her patient and she locate themselves in and wrestle with discourse, an engagement that effects change in both
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Witness · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |