Female descendants within biological families are connected on multiple levels. While the female foetus floats in the liquid of her mother’s womb, her body silently manufactures the eggs that may one day create her own daughter. In this sense, the granddaughter is formed within the grandmother: she shares her cellular material and has inhabited the same body. In societies where children have a singular maternal figure providing care — such as industrialized countries in the twentieth and twentieth-first centuries — female generations also share an emotional matrilineal inheritance. When a woman becomes a mother for the first time, she undergoes a psychological transformation that American psychiatrist and psychoanalytic theorist Daniel Stern calls ‘the birth of the mother’.1¹ The emotional negotiation of new motherhood includes several layers of inter-subjective dialogue for the new mother: with herself, her child, her partner if present, her friends and her family. In the process of fashioning her own sense of herself as a mother — her maternality2² — a woman’s own infancy and childhood is emotionally revisited and re-evaluated. Sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, she is drawn into a re-evaluation of her relationship with her own mother and her mother’s parenting style.3³ Whether willingly or reluctantly, the process of becoming a mother necessarily invokes the spectre of one’s own experience of being mothered.4⁴

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内在的母亲：自1945年以来世代对澳大利亚成熟的影响*

生物家族中的女性后代在多个层面上相互联系。当雌性胎儿漂浮在母亲子宫内的液体中时，她的身体无声制造卵子，有一天可能会产生自己的女儿。从这个意义上说，孙女是在祖母内部形成的：她共享自己的细胞物质，并且居住在同一身体中。在儿童拥有单一的孕产妇提供照料的社会中（例如在20世纪和20世纪第一世纪的工业化国家），女性世代也分享着情感上的母系遗产。当一个女人的第一次母亲，她经历了一个心理转变，美国精神病医生和精神分析理论家丹尼尔·斯特恩所称的“mother'.1诞生¹新母亲的情感谈判包括与新母亲之间的主体间对话的几层：与她自己，她的孩子，她的伴侣（如果在场），她的朋友和家人。在塑造自己作为母亲的感觉（她的母性）^{2的过程中}，对女性的婴儿期和童年进行了情感上的重新评估。有时自觉，有时不自觉地，她被抽入她与自己的母亲和她母亲的养育style.3关系的重新评估³无论是情愿或不情愿地成为一个母亲的过程中必然调用的一个自己的幸福体验的幽灵母亲^{4 4}