Las Manos de la Madre. Deseo, Fantasmas y Herencia de Lo Materno

Far from any simplifying drawing, Recalcati presents the mother in its many facets, through a kaleidoscopic gallery drawn from clinical experience, also from the Bible, books and films. It helps us to recognize the profile of a real mother, not ideal, whose thousand faces actually represent only one, the one in which the child knows how to recognize his own. And, above all, it emphasizes the importance of never forgetting that a mother should never stop being a woman, wife and lover, and that the only possible basis for a healthy motherhood is femininity.