Anorexic Daughters of hysterical Mothers. On the Shadows (and Lights) of the Mother as a symbolic Order
by Carlotta Cossutta
pp. 363-368 Issue 12 (6,2) – July-December 2019 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2019.6.2.21
Abstract
“The liberation of the truth of the hysteric takes place with feminism, or, rather, with the feminism of difference and the primacy this assigns to the woman-to-woman relationship. This relationship is practiced within relations that are not ethically regulated by equality and reciprocity: they are unequal relations, of love and caring; often, they are conflictual relations; at times, they are obscured by the ‘shadow of the mother’” (Muraro, 2018, p. 166).
This quotation by Luisa Muraro contains, in extreme synthesis, the project of a liberation based on the relationship and not on the autonomy that lies at the base of the feminism of the Italian sexual difference, in particular in that expressed by Diotima. A feminism with some peculiar traits, often more cited than studied, that can be found in the volume edited by Cesare Casarino and Andrea Righi, which does a valuable job of collecting texts of the thought of sexual difference.