The production and purposes of maternal ambivalence

Rozsika Parker

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Maternal ambivalence is curiously hard to believe in. Even while writing a book on the subject I often found myself doubting its very existence (Parker 1995). Was it simply an apocryphal excuse for mothers who hate their children? Was I offering empty reassurance by arguing for the hidden contribution to creative mothering that ambivalence can provide?

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