ABSTRACT
In the preceding chapters of this book, I have been building a theoretical account of the capacity to care: first, by considering the available literatures, their useful leads and their dead-ends; second, by using a psychoanalysis emphasising unconscious intersubjectivity to understand identifications in self formation; and third, by focusing on how these theoretical tools cast light on maternal subjectivity as it is expressed in the capacity to care for dependent others, particularly babies.
