The Mother Mirror

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In The Mother Mirror, Laurie Corbin studies the mother-daughter relationships portrayed in autobiographical works by Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras. Psychoanalytic theory, in particular the work of Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva, is used to show how women's self-representations can be determined by the ways in which they see their mothers. Corbin's feminist theoretical framework illuminates both the psychological and the social contexts of these autobiographical works, showing that even the most intimate relationships are shaped by social structures and that social reality is dependent on the workings of the psyche.

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Laurie L. Corbin

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«‘The Mother Mirror: Self-Representation and the Mother-Daughter Relation in Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras’ brings together two important areas of research in French Studies and in Women’s Studies: the writing and reading of autobiographies by women, and mother-daughter relations as these have been theorized by both French and North American psychoanalytic schools. The three French women writers – Colette, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras – on whose autobiographical work Dr. Corbin has chosen to focus, provide a fascinating diversity in style and in socio-cultural positioning and contexts. These challenging differences work against similarities proposed by more canonical and orthodox psychoanalytic theories and by what Dr. Corbin has already observed to be a repeated pattern of telling and retelling. It is in the working out of the interplay between the same and the different that Laurie Corbin’s book will make a significant contribution to the study of autobiographical writings by women and daughters.» (Elaine Marks, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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«'The Mother Mirror: Self-Representation and the Mother-Daughter Relation in Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and Marguerite Duras' brings together two important areas of research in French Studies and in Women's Studies: the writing and reading of autobiographies by women, and mother-daughter relations as these have been theorized by both French and North American psychoanalytic schools. The three French women writers - Colette, Simone de Beauvoir and Marguerite Duras - on whose autobiographical work Dr. Corbin has chosen to focus, provide a fascinating diversity in style and in socio-cultural positioning and contexts. These challenging differences work against similarities proposed by more canonical and orthodox psychoanalytic theories and by what Dr. Corbin has already observed to be a repeated pattern of telling and retelling. It is in the working out of the interplay between the same and the different that Laurie Corbin's book will make a significant contribution to the study of autobiographical writings by women and daughters.» (Elaine Marks, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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