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Conflicted Love

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Kelly Oliver
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Abstract

Our stereotypes of maternity and paternity as manifest in the history of philosophy and psychoanalysis interfere with the ability to imagine loving relationships. The associations of maternity with antisocial nature and paternity with disembodied culture are inadequate to set up primary love relationships. Analyzing the conflicts in these associations, I reformulate the maternal body as social and lawful, and I reformulate the paternal function as embodied, which enables imagining our primary relationships as loving.

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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Summer 2000 , pp. 1 - 18
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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