Mum's the Word
Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and the Maternal Subject
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5137151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Baraitser (0000-0001-6209-7838, Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86-110 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.1080/15240650701759524 |
| OpenAlex | W1975648003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 15 |
Where motherhood and ethics are brought together, it is usually under the rubric of an “ethic of care,” with the mother-child relationship figured as a paradigmatic example of such an ethic. In this article I make use of Levinas' account of ethics as first philosophy to flesh out a notion of “maternal alterity” as an alternative to a maternal ethics based on the various complex mental and emotional tasks that make up care. This represents an attempt to recuperate something for the mother out of her often bewildering encounter with the enigmatic otherness of her child. Situating Levinas alongside a dialogue between Jessica Benjamin and Judith Butler on intersubjectivity, I attempt to disentangle maternal subjectivity from the developing subjectivity of the child and offer an account of the maternal subject as an ethical subject situated, perhaps, “otherwise” to a discourse of care
Alterity · Epistemology · Intersubjectivity · Psychoanalysis · Situated · Sociology · Subjectivity · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
Relational Concepts in Psychoanalysis
Relationality
Phenomenology of Spirit
Citizenship and the Ethics of Care
Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence
Response to Commentaries by Mitchell and by Butler
Longing for Recognition Commentary on the Work or Jessica Benjamin
Why we should Care about Friends
Beyond Doer and Done To
In a different voice
In and beyond New Labour
Mother-Writing and the Narrative of Maternal Subjectivity
Maternal Thinking
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |