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100 1 0 _aDufourmantelle, Anne
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245 0 0 _aInfanticide and Sacrifice
260 _c2009.
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520 _aBased on the sacrifice and what she calls the “sacrificial mother,” the author of this paper identifies what infanticide is a symptom of. Sacrifice is seen here as unveiling a hidden collective or individual trauma. The unredeemable debt that comes with “giving life” is something to which only a mother’s unconditional gift can respond, the other name for separation. This paper hypothesizes that there is a strange economy of sacrifice in the realm of an obstructed or forbidden memory. Based on the figure of Medea, another face of infant slaughter by mothers appears. A way of saying “no” to the trauma that she is in charge of and in which she is embodied. The reality at stake is what binds sacrifice to truth: whom does the mother’s sacrifice of her infant address?
690 _aMedea
690 _ainfant slaughter
690 _asacrifice and truth
690 _asacrificial mother
786 0 _nEnfances & Psy | o 44 | 3 | 2009-11-16 | p. 111-122 | 1286-5559
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-enfances-et-psy-2009-3-page-111?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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