Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible to write on a hypersensitive skin with a fingernail. Like 'most mothers, I became resigned early to being less than nothing to my children. Thanks to your article, I'm now a heroine. We've been holding demonstrations until every exposed part of my anatomy is covered with the mark of Zorro, hearts, and initials from most of the neighborhood children. Any mother can raise biscuits, but how many can raise welts on demand? Perhaps you could find a use for this talent? If I were still in school I'd make a terrific walking...
Overtones of the Oedipus complex are subtly woven into the main theme. Mother love is a distraction on the path to perfection...
...prison make. One 14-year-old boy on a Colorado ranch races forth before the show to catch it on his school TV set miles away. When the show conflicted with their devotions, the sisters in a Midwest convent switched their Mass time by special permission of the Mother House...
Although Freud developed the hotly debated Oedipus complex from his feelings toward his mother, Fromm believes that he concealed their intensity even from himself. And while discovery of the "wish to remain attached to Mother" was a notable event, Freud destroyed its value by restricting it to instinctual desires. In analytic terms: "His own attachment to Mother was the basis of his discovery, and his resistance to seeing his attachment was the basis for the limitation and distortion of this very discovery...
...above the Mississippi bar of justice at which she stands condemned for throttling a six-month-old infant to death in its crib. Nancy is a Negro ex-prostitute, but her crime is a mere postscript to the horror-gorged life of her mistress, the dead child's mother, who is enslaved to the devil in the flesh. Mrs. Gowan Stevens was formerly Temple Drake, society-girl heroine of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, to which Requiem for a Nun is a sequel. While the law has dealt with Nancy, it is the Furies of the past that hound...