TY - BOOK AU - Ruiz,Louis TI - The Mother as a Perverse Seductress PY - 2010///. N1 - 43 N2 - Freud could not fully develop the metapsychological issues linked to the theme of motherly seduction, as his perception of motherly care presupposed, as a matter of fact, that the mother is she “who could not be ambivalent toward her first son.” She could only be destructive (and a seductress) through a phantasy. Conrad Stein’s Les Erinyes d’une mère revisits this a priori interpretation by Freud, and goes beyond it to formalize a conceptualization of hatred as one of the main components of melancholia UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2010-2-page-299?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -