| Abstract: | Interpellation is not only a function of public life. It is also at home. Here Maura Sheehy works with Melissa, a young mother, who, just like her analyst, struggles with the multiple interpellations of motherhood. Abjected as well as idealized, motherhood produces both exaltation and utter confused misery for both. As the treatment proceeds, we witness analyst's and patient's common search for intelligibility, a parallel process in which the analyst finds/sees how both her patient and she locate themselves in and wrestle with discourse, an engagement that effects change in both. |
