ABSTRACT
This chapter explores one of the fundamental dimensions of the experience of motherhood: the transgenerational aspects of unconscious narcissistic identification that inevitably link the mother with her mother and her mother's mother. The nearness of the baby to the body of the mother and the productions of the maternal psyche are central to the exploration of the role that narcissistic identifications with the mother and their transgenerational aspects have in the experience of motherhood. The presence of Victor seems to have made Gabriela capable of beginning to detach herself from the alienating narcissistic identification with her mother and grandmother. The chapter describes some of the characteristics of the relationship between three generations of women, Gabriela, her mother, and the "great-grandmother". The observation of the dynamic of the relationship between mother and daughter, mother and grandmother, grandmother and great-grandmother, which revealed difficulties in the maternal line with the processes of differentiation, separation.
