The validity of the unconscious The irreducible tension between motherhood and feminism

Abstract

The present article postulates that the dialogue feminism psychoanalysis around motherhood should be approached in a context that historizes the concepts and the discussions at stake. It raises the place of ‘reverse’ of psychoanalysis in relation to the sciences of culture. In this sense, he punctuates in various authors the ‘oblivion of the unconscious’ to which they have come to think socio-cultural problems, or incurred in psychologizing or simplistic readings of the phallic problematic to confront psychoanalysis with feminism. Finally, it characterizes motherhood, which, beyond being determined by an ideological ‘maternalistic’ being a parenting practice, is considered as a libidinal experience and a way of enjoyment that opens up the often veiled problematic of specifically feminine perversion.