Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 07 | Nº 2

JULY 2017

Praising the mother

Amanda Goya

Escuela Lacaniana de Psicoanálisis, Asociación Mundial de Psicoanálisis

Abstract

The present text is an analysis about the maternal position, from the film La tía Tula (Picazo, 1964), a film based on the novel by the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno. As the author puts it, woman and mother can coexist in different proportions in each woman or present themselves as excluding, both in the Freudian times and nowadays. Are we in front of a new symptom of the declination of father function? From our psychoanalytic practice we stumble every day upon clinical phenomena that show us how difficult is for a subject an excessive attachment to his parents, particularly to the mother.

Keywords: mother | woman | Decline of paternal function | desire | jouissance

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Exaltar la madre

NOTAS

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Praising the mother

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