Maternal Separation Anxiety: Mother-Infant Separation from the Maternal Perspective

1989 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Hock ◽  
Susan McBride ◽  
M. Therese Gnezda
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Separation ◽  
Separation Anxiety ◽  
Maternal Separation Anxiety

Maternal Separation Anxiety and a Woman's Career Choice

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sidney F. Fisher ◽  
Alison S. O'Brien ◽  
Louis C. Buffardi ◽  
Carol J. Erdwins
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Maternal Separation ◽  
Separation Anxiety ◽  
Maternal Separation Anxiety

Maternal Separation Anxiety Scale

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Hock ◽  
T. Gnezda ◽  
S. McBride
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Separation ◽  
Separation Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Maternal Separation Anxiety

Maternal Separation Anxiety

1988 ◽  
pp. 191-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Hock ◽  
Debra DeMeis ◽  
Susan McBride
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Separation ◽  
Separation Anxiety ◽  
Maternal Separation Anxiety

Petrifying Attachments: Fear and Safety in Jeanette Winterson's Tanglewreck and The Battle of the Sun

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Armitt
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Maternal Separation ◽  
Separation Anxiety ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Maternal Separation Anxiety ◽  
Childhood Fear

This article focuses on Jeanette Winterson's two most extended works of fiction for children, Tanglewreck and The Battle of the Sun, identifying them as narratives of longing and adventure engaging directly with questions of childhood fear and safety. In 2007 I wrote an article on Winterson's adult fiction which focused on her use of vertical imagery. Using such vertiginous drops, I argued, Winterson explores the perilous opportunities afforded by disengaging from a woman-centred storytelling tradition, thus enabling her to ‘go it alone’. In Tanglewreck and The Battle of the Sun, these vertical images return and are again connected with questions of attachment and disengagement, yet now with an increasingly overt agenda of negotiating maternal separation anxiety. In Winterson's 2011 memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, the journey of the first-person narrator, as she travels from child to adulthood, is shrouded in fears linked to lost origins and a safe sense of belonging. As this article shows, these are also the issues facing Silver and Jack, the child protagonists of Tanglewreck and The Battle of the Sun.

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