why a mother hates her baby
Joseph S. Barrera III
joe at barrera.org
Wed Sep 22 11:11:10 PDT 1999
> >Who could not love a little kid.
>
> [from D.W. Winnicott, "Hate in the Counter-Transference," The
> International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 30, part 2 (1949), pp. 69-74]
>
> The mother, however, hates her infant from the word go. I believe
> Freud thought it possible that a mother may under certain
> circumstances have only love for her boy baby; but we may doubt this.
> We know about a mother's love and we appreciate its reality and
> power. Let me give some of the reasons why a mother hates her baby,
> even a boy.
1. Note that Winnicott describes a hate that coexists with love.
So this doesn't really answer the original question of
how one could "not love" a little kid.
2. Why the word "hate"? "Resent", I can understand.
- Joe
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