From the Absent Mother to the Oppressive Mother to the New Mother in Lucía Etxebarria'sUn milagro en equilibrio

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Julia C. Barnes
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2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Lodge

Pittenweem Priory began life as the caput manor of a daughter-house established on May Island by Cluniac monks from Reading (c. 1140). After its sale to St Andrews (c. 1280), the priory transferred ashore. While retaining its traditional name, the ‘Priory of May (alias Pittenweem)’ was subsumed within the Augustinian priory of St Andrews. Its prior was elected from among the canons of the new mother house, but it was many decades before a resident community of canons was set up in Pittenweem. The traditional view, based principally on the ‘non-conventual’ status of the priory reiterated in fifteenth-century documents, is that there was ‘no resident community’ before the priorship of Andrew Forman (1495–1515). Archaeological evidence in Pittenweem, however, indicates that James Kennedy had embarked on significant development of the priory fifty years earlier. This suggests that, when the term ‘non-conventual’ is used in documents emanating from Kennedy's successors (Graham and Scheves), we should interpret it more as an assertion of superiority and control than as a description of realities in the priory.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z.A. Grieb ◽  
E.G. Ford ◽  
F.P. Manfredsson ◽  
J.S. Lonstein

SummaryProsocial interactions are essential for group-living animals and are regulated by tactile cues shared among the group members. Neurobiological mechanisms through which social touch influences prosociality and related affective behaviors are relatively unknown. Using the evolutionarily ancient mother-young dyad as a model, we hypothesized that neurobehavioral consequences of social touch involves an interaction between central oxytocin (released during social touch) and serotonin (regulating affect and neuroplasticity). New mother rats showed upregulation of numerous aspects of the oxytocin system in the midbrain dorsal raphe (DR; source of forebrain serotonin) compared to non-maternal females. Preventing this upregulation by OTR knockdown in the maternal DR elicited infanticide, reduced nursing, increased aggression, and decreased active coping behavior. OTR knockdown also decreased serotonin-immunoreactive fibers, and increased neuroplasticity-restricting perineuronal nets, in the primary somatosensory cortex. Thus, oxytocin signaling in the DR regulates mechanisms involved in serotonin-induced cortical plasticity, which refines the tactile processing underlying prosocial behaviors.


Author(s):  
Jason Lawrence

The conclusion traces how the psychoanalytical approach utilised in late twentieth-century Freudian interpretations of Tasso’s life and work, by Margaret Ferguson and Giampiero Giamperi for example, had been pre-empted in English biographical accounts of the poet from the second half of the nineteenth century. J. A. Symonds and Leigh Hunt both focus on the same autobiographical poem, the unfinished Canzone al Metauro, as these later psycho-biographical readings to try to account for Tasso’s troubled relationships with his absent mother and particularly his father Bernardo. The conclusion argues that the absence of a clearly defined vocabulary for psychoanalytical discourse pre-Freud does not diminish the acuity of these earlier biographical observations on the poet.


2020 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
CHARLOTTE J. RICH
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Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
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Winnicott’s letter to a confidant on her ‘split-off’ male and female elements, their relation to homosexuality and bisexuality and her life as a new mother.


2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-74
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Landess ◽  
Susan Hatters Friedman
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2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-21
Author(s):  
Michelle Goringe

Michelle Goringe, IBD Nurse Specialist at York Teaching Hospital, recalls the challenges of taking time off and returning to work as a new mother


1981 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Philip Levine
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2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 1113-1116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele De Falco Alfano ◽  
Marilina Totaro ◽  
Cristina Zagà ◽  
Riccardo Duati ◽  
Andrea Bernardoni ◽  
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