ABSTRACT
In the 1980s, reflecting the current socio-psychological context, Cereijido was concerned single motherhood represented a narcissistic project and the children would have difficulties separating. She conducted a study exploring those mothers’ fantasies of what the children and their relationship with their single mothers would be like. As a result of cultural changes, she has changed her thinking about single motherhood and no longer thinks it is a narcissistic project. She recently interviewed some of those children. They are individuals living life the way Freud described it: loving and working. Her study discusses how both she and single mothers evolved in response to cultural change, underscoring the role of the analyst’s theoretical understanding and prejudices.
