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Maternal
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MATERNAL. That which belongs to, or comes from the mother: as, maternal authority, maternal relation, maternal estate, maternal line. Vide Line.
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14) A crucial aspect of Hopkinson's presentation of this maternal bond is the community, rather than the individual parent, who will raise the child.
Maternal discourses in Nalo Hopkinson's Midnight Robber by Anatol, Giselle Liza / African American Review
For Wyatt, Lacan is an important thinker for feminism precisely because he refuses to apotheosize maternity and the maternal bond with the child.
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As figured by the dissolution of identity between mother and child in the maternal bond, such fissuring may also consume the identity of the subject, or lead the subject to consume others.
Healing religion: aesthetics and analysis in the work of Kristeva and ... by Young, William W., III / Cross Currents
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