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We have Presented Portraits of Women—Young, Middle-Aged, and old—bonded across the generations. We see them struggling with each other; envying and admiring, imitating and competing, weeping with and for each other; fighting, tempting, arousing and ignoring; subjugating, dominating, pleading and domineering; hating, scorning, hurting, blending and annihilating; losing, finding, grieving for each other, teasing, laughing, forgiving each other and loving, ever loving each other—sometimes too much, sometimes too little, but always, always deeply affected by each other's resonances. We have presented their therapists' discovering them, musing about them, challenging them, helping them, inadvertently hindering them, supporting them, interpreting them to themselves and always thinking about them searchingly.
We hope that these two volumes, which we have immensely enjoyed putting together, working over with our authors and assembling with the help of the The Analytic Press staff, will enrich the contemporary psychoanalytic scene of female developmental theory and practice in our field and keep the excitement of this primordial conversation going that is about mothers and daughters.