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The tension between the wish to merge and the wish for separateness exists throughout life with a rhythm that, at certain points, accentuates one, then the other. Mothering embodies this duality: the wish to unite and the wish to be distinct and autonomous.
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Domash, L. (1988). Motivations for Motherhood and the Nature of the Self—Object Tie. In: Offerman-Zuckerberg, J. (eds) Critical Psychophysical Passages in the Life of a Woman. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5362-1_7
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