Making a mess
Adam Phillips, 2 February 1989
Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealisation and Denigration of Motherhood
by Estela Welldon.
Free Association, 179 pp., £11.95, November 1988,1 85343 039 0 Show More
by Estela Welldon.
Free Association, 179 pp., £11.95, November 1988,
“... first patients, though, were mostly women who claimed to have been seduced by their fathers. It is Estela Welldon’s point in this often sympathetic book that maternal incest may be more pervasive than Freud was able to recognise. Psychoanalysis began, however, with the really very puzzling question of the difference between adults and children: that ... ”
