The Mother / Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism

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Indiana University Press, 1989年10月22日 - 260 頁

Mothers and daughters -- the female figures neglected by classic psychoanalysis and submerged in traditional narrative -- are at the center of this book. The novels of nineteenth- and twentieth-century women writers from the Western European and North American traditions reveal that the story of motherhood remains the unspeakable plot of Western culture. Focusing on the feminine and, more controversially, on the maternal, this book alters our perception of both the familial structures basic to traditional narrative -- the Oedipus story -- and the narrative structures basic to traditional representations of the family -- Freud's family romance. Confronting psychoanalytic theories of subject-formation with narrative theories, Marianne Hirsch traces the emergence and transformation of female family romance patterns from Jane Austen to Marguerite Duras.

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Female Family Romances
43
Fraternal Plots
68
The Darkest Plots
91
Feminist Family Romances
125
Feminist DiscourseMaternal Discourse
162
NOTES
201
BIBLIOGRAPHY
227
INDEX
238
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第 126 頁 - Re-vision— the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction — is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
第 1 頁 - What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening, you answered, Man.
第 112 頁 - Life stand still here"; Mrs. Ramsay making of the moment something permanent (as in another sphere Lily herself tried to make of the moment something permanent) — this was of the nature of a revelation. In the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing (she looked at the clouds going and the leaves shaking) was struck into stability.
第 60 頁 - She spoke then, on being so entreated. What did she say ? Just what she ought. of course. A lady always does. She said enough to show there need not be despair, and to invite him to say more himself.
第 95 頁 - Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.
第 94 頁 - For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
第 126 頁 - It is the tone of a woman almost in touch with her anger, who is determined not to appear angry, who is willing herself to be calm, detached, and even charming in a roomful of men where things have been said which are attacks on her very integrity.
第 112 頁 - They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions. Then he said, Damn you. He said, It must rain. He said, It won't rain: and instantly a Heaven of security opened before her. There was nobody she reverenced more. She was not good enough to tie his shoe strings, she felt.
第 203 頁 - Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978). 3. Iris Young, "Socialist Feminism and the Limits of Dual Systems Theory," in Socialist Review 10, 2/3 (March-June, 1980), p.
第 101 頁 - At this point I, as a woman, ask in amazement, and what about motherhood ? And the blissful consciousness of bearing a new life within oneself ? And the ineffable happiness of the increasing expectation of the appearance of this new being ? And the joy when it finally makes its appearance and one holds it for the first time in one's arms ? And the deep pleasurable feeling of satisfaction in suckling it and the happiness of the whole period when the infant needs her care...

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