ABSTRACT

After reading through Parts I and II, it can be concluded that scientific thinking on daughters and mothers has been blinded in several ways. Following these critiques, many new components were identified for the construction of more differentiated images of daughters and mothers. However, the prevailing frame of analysis-the object relations theory, with its orientation on separation-remained almost unchallenged. Neither the connections between concepts, nor their evaluations were disputed, and no alternative frameworks were exposed.