Demeter's Compromise: Separation, Loss, and Reconnection in Mothers with Daughters Entering Adulthood

Winograd, Wendy

doi:10.1080/15228878.2015.1071681

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“…Whereas the mother readily perceives the son as distinct, the daughter remains as an extension of the mother’s self. If the mother has not reached an appropriate stage in her own separation–individuation, she may experience her adolescent daughter’s autonomy as a rejection that elicits feelings of anxiety that challenge her centrality and necessity in her daughter’s life (Winograd, 2016).…”

Section: Separation–individuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As part of the mother’s identification process with her daughter, mothers often project their unconscious feelings and thoughts and act as though their daughter embodies their image (Winograd, 2016). This kind of process may elicit a sense of rejection in the mother which is accompanied by infantilizing reactions toward the daughter or the expectation of inadequate adult reactions.…”

Section: Separation–individuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Keep it quiet: Mother–daughter parentification and difficulties in separation–individuation shaping daughters’ authentic/true self and self-silencing: A mediation model.

Goldner¹,

Jakobi²,

Schorr³

et al. 2022

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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The current study employed a mediation model to explore the contribution of mother-adolescent daughter (N = 208, M age = 15.02) parentification and difficulties in separation-individuation to these adolescent girls' authenticity/true self and self-silencing. Specifically, the model examined whether mother-daughter separation-individuation would mediate the relationships between mother-daughter parentification and motives for false-self behaviors and authenticity, which in turn would mediate the links between motherdaughter separation-individuation and self-silencing. The findings indicated that parentification was positively correlated with girls' difficulties in separation-individuation, which in turn was negatively correlated with girls' authenticity, and through it, was positively correlated with girls' self-silencing. These findings highlight the negative consequences of parentification on girls' self-system and point to the role of difficulties in separation-individuation and authenticity as mechanisms through which parentification contributes to Israeli adolescent girls' self-silencing. These results are discussed in terms of attachment theory and developmental psychopathology.

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Section: Separation–individuationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Separation–individuationmentioning

confidence: 99%