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While one girl scorns her mother’s ambition in which she is trapped, the other actualizes the dream that she imagines her dead mother had nurtured for her. Through various clinical cases, films, and novels, we question the figures of feminine ambition in different periods and show how daughters either thwart or fulfill their mother’s plans, for better or for worse. To do so, we rely mainly on the concept of the superego and on Lacan’s notion of “extension of the symptom.”