![]() ![]() Motherhood is still associated more with mind-numbing tedium than with civilizational genius. ![]() In novels, poems, memoirs, academic studies and self-help books, motherhood became a topic of sustained, widespread, and rigorous examination for perhaps the first time in history.ĭespite the rich and nuanced accounts developed in such books, however, many old biases and taboos have persisted. Over the last century or so, as medical advancements have revolutionized birth and as women started writing and publishing with greater frequency, a remarkable body of work has grown up around motherhood. ![]() We should be able to reach them without magical keys or devilish guides. Mothers are indeed “the Mothers!” The good and bad, the biological and non-biological, the traditional and the trail-blazing-all are mothers and surely by now we shouldn’t be embarrassed to speak about them. “To speak of them embarrasses,” he continues, “They are the Mothers!” On the threshold of that dark pit, the devil explains that the Mothers “occupy a hell that’s all their own,” an unexplorable Void beyond existence itself and defined only by vast solitudes and waste. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust, the hero is led by the devil to the realm of the Mothers, a place accessible only by a steep, downward staircase and a magical key. ![]()
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