ABSTRACT
Recent feminist psychoanalysis, at least that informed by the work of Nancy Chodorow (e.g. 1978) and Luce Irigaray (e.g. 1985), has tended to focus on, and celebrate women’s mothering. In this it is at one with many men psychoanalysts who now variously idealize mothering in terms of empathy (e.g. Kohut, 1977), holding (Winnicott, 1960), containment (e.g. Bion, 1977), and transformation (e.g. Bollas, 1987).
