From The Imaginary Mother To The Symbolic Mother

Since establishment of psycho-analysis theory, the exploration of interaction between father and children has always been the principal problem in theory and clinic. However, the Possibility Complex before Oedipus Complex has not been major focus of study. Correspondingly, mother as the other who initially interacts with child after birth has not been included in structure of personality. With the development of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice, a number of psycho-analysts have focused their attention on the issue of the interaction between "mother and baby". In fact, from Freud to Lacan, the mother as women influence the children in the course of formation of structure of personality. In psychoanalytic field of Britain, Melanie Klein and D.W.Winnicott have expounded their views on the effect of mother as mater. According to the four psycho-analysts , the imaginary mother with desire of parent and sex has been embodied step by step. Francoise Dolto has showed us that the symbolic mother was essential to the children with the castration symboligene theory on the background of the subject theory of Lactan. In fact, the naissance of the concept of complex of generation has integrated the concept of mother in different theories. The complex of generation has also been determined simultaneously by civilization and culture of the human being as primal complex. The concept of the symbolic mother became clear-cut and was founded in this background of the castration symboligene theory—The mother is multi-dimension as parletre. We discuss importance of the multi-dimension mother in the thesis. In the...