Voyages around mothers: departures and returns

Cummins, Anne Marie

Abstract

This piece is a personal response to the articles in this special issue of the Journal of Psychosocial Studies. It identifies three themes that seem to unite the articles: children’s emotional labour; repair and generativity; and après-coup or Nachträglichkeit. It is also suggested that there is an absence – the shadow of envy, competition and rivalry, which also tends to run through the matrix of so many mother–daughter and supervisor–supervisee relations. Further, it is suggested that any future iterations of these relationships would be enriched by integrating contributions on the ways in which not only collusion, competition and oedipal struggles, but also hierarchy and asymmetry are especially problematic sources of psychic pain when women supervise women.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jul 11, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Aug 1, 2022
• Publication Date: Aug 1, 2022
• Deposit Date: Aug 31, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 2, 2023
• Journal: Journal of Psychosocial Studies
• Print ISSN: 1478-6737
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 140-146
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/147867321X16575215381863
• Keywords: Social Sciences (miscellaneous), Sociology and Political Science, Cultural Studies, Social Psychology, mother–daughter matrices; supervision; emotional labour; reparation; après-coup; Nachträglichkeit; envy
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9854649
• Publisher URL: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/jps/aop/article-10.1332-147867321X16575215381863/article-10.1332-147867321X16575215381863.xml