Motherhood

Reading "Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Psychological Reading" by Sandra Mayfield, she makes a claim that I agree with. Mayfield realizes that this theorist whose name is Jacques Lacan has a theory of that all unborn babies will go through something called a "mirror" stage. Lacan states that a baby while still in their mothers womb, they soak up the environment where the mother is. So Sethe had a troubled childhood because her mother first of all passed away and how Sethe had to escape through her freedom, and her memories at sweet home, she was pregnant while she was going through all of these things. So because of her trauma and hardships her children have what it seems to be a negative aspect of things, it is kind of weird how they ran away just like their mother. But because of going through the hardships in Sethe's life they did not want to experience  what their mother experienced even though I think that they are going to follow similar foot steps of their mother. Mayfield then goes on to say that Sethe damaged the baby in the womb which I agree with, then she goes on to say that it could be something darker which I actually disagree with. Sethe and her children were born into such different time periods that why I do not think anything dark will come to them at least not as bad as what Sethe experienced. This is kind of reminded me of the circularity in Beloved which was a different article but this whole idea that you just keep on going reminds me of motherhood because it is a circle of motherhood, they all follow their mothers footsteps. 

Mayfield brings up her main point which was that slavery for women they were still looked down upon. Mayfield goes on to bring up different points on how it is hard being a mother and how much a mother has to do for her children. I agree with what Mayfield says, mothers have to make a lot of sacrifice for their children and they try their best to make the life easier than it was for them. I overall agree with what Sandra Mayfield has to say about the mirror stage, but I respectfully disagree with Sandra's comment on how they have a dark future ahead of them. I like how Mayfield brings up her main point which was a touch of more of a feminist lens, so it appealed to both psychoanalytical and the feminist lens which was very interesting to see both lenses