Sentence examples for maternal desire from inspiring English sources

Libido, as she once knew it, is gone, and in its place is all-consuming maternal desire.

"I love how it links potential pathologies in maternal desire with potential excesses in middle-class yearning".

"Maternal Desire" both records and tries to theorize de Marneffe's decision to suspend her career and devote herself full time to child-rearing.

"To take maternal desire as a valid focus of personal exploration is not a step backward but a step forward, toward greater awareness and a truer model of the self," she writes.

What they find especially pernicious about this trend — and here they could be speaking directly about "Maternal Desire" — is that its anti-feminist message is frequently cloaked in feminist terms.

Her feelings — the "invisible tether" pulling her back from the office, the reluctance to leave her son with a bunch of other two-year-olds — all arise from what she calls "maternal desire".

Directly connected to this, Lacan (re defines the phallus (which is not the penis) as the structural function of whatever "x" the child hypothesizes the paternal figure possesses making him the focus of the maternal figure's desire, that is, the possession enabling the father to domesticate and control the mother's otherwise unpredictable desire.

The progress toward the desired maternal and newborn health goals may be hampered with less likelihood of achieving the MDG targets, if these declines in the coverage both at the state and LGA levels persist.

The rather complex and long lasting treatment of personality disorders is often not a primary aim during pregnancy, however, the provision of some kind of maternal support is desired.

The film's best and boldest move is how it brings maternal love and sexual desire into play with artistic longing and youthful ambition.

Ms Hertog poignantly renders the conflict between maternal instinct and the desire for realisation of ambition, backed by a fear of diminished "intellectual lustre" and of becoming lost in a "cocoon of domesticity".