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The Good Mother, Isn't It?
Psychoanalysts said the good mother necessarily fails. The woman is faced with this terrible necessity of dispensing with that full fledged maternal care incrementally and letting the child, facilitating the child's movement forward. And I think it's very useful for a woman to have her masculine side developed for that or to have more, more likely to have a male partner around who's more oriented towards encouragement than intense maternal care. But you want to foster in your children and in the people you're mentoring that ability to do things on their own.