SOURCE: “Feminist Family Romances,” in The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Indiana University Press, 1989, pp. 125-61.
In the following essay, Hirsch provides a psychoanalytic reading of the relationship between the narrator and her mother in The Lover.
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