LOVE- AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES

QUESTION: Discuss Winnicotts notion of the good-enough mother in relation to mothering in an unequal world.

Winnicott, D. (1956) Primary Maternal Preoccupation. In D. Winnicott (1975) Through Paediatrics to Psycho-Analysis. London: The Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis.

Doane, J. and Hodges, D. 1992. From Klein to Kristeva: Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Search for the Good Enough Mother. University of Michigan Press.

Thomson, R., et al., (2011) Making Modern Mothers, Chapter 4, Relationships. Polity Press

Winnicott, D., (1960) The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship. (1960). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 41: 585-595.
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