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Mother-Daughter Relationship Devastation by moebius70 is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The document discusses the mother-daughter relationship and its effects according to Freud and Lacan. Freud believed the relationship often resulted in "devastation" for the daughter. He said discovering the mother is castrated leads the daughter to abandon her as a love object but retain lifelong hostility. Lacan saw the mother as the primordial Other who situates the subject in the symbolic order through language, but the relationship sometimes fails to properly regulate instinct, resulting in "devastatio

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