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I will pay for the following article The Concept of Essentialism. The work is to be 7 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page. Hobson et al (2002) state that the present concept of motherhood as a social and personal identity has emerged over a long period of change. However, the role of the mother is mainly represented as marginalized or an “absent presence”, which is a result of the patriarchal system, says Foucault (Woodward, 1997).

Historically, three broad mother discourses or narratives pertain to the early modern, high-modernist and post-modern mothers, corresponding to the pre-Industrial Revolution era, the First World War and the Second World War. These may be described as first: Rousseauian discourses, second: Darwinwinian/ Marxist/ Freudian discourses, and finally recent post-modern mother discourses. During Rousseau’s time, western culture turned a new focus on the child. This change produced the modern mother in her role especially to care for the child. Rousseau’s contribution was that he established a concept of child-rearing as a long preparation for adulthood, carefully overseen by the parents and the significant role of the mother (Kaplan, 1992). This was the precursor to the era of psychoanalysis.

Unconscious pre-Oedipal fusional or symbiotic processes are both relevant since maternal melodramas of both types represent the desire for fusion with the mother. Humanist/ sociological Freudian theories in nineteenth-century women’s texts and select twentieth-century films are different from post-structuralist Lacanian theories, which can be used to explore how the symbolic order defines the mother.

There are links between psychoanalytic theory showing the unconscious need for closeness with the mother’s body and the basic cinematic institution. Kaplan (1992: 28) believes that “cinema is the closest in the realm of the Symbolic to access to the maternal body, which is impossible after the pre-Oedipal period”.

Freud’s Theories of Motherhood: Freud’s theories revolutionized nineteenth-century motherhood discourses.&nbsp.