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“TooLate”
AmbivalenceAboutMotherhood, Choice, And Time
Nancy J.
That way a real choice can be made. But in women for whom it is toolate, this is not possible.
In women for whom it is toolate, I also discovered that, quite apart from their current recognition of this too-lateness, time has in unconscious fantasy stood still.
We became more aware of her unconscious commitment to time standing still or not existing, and her need that time not exist, because to recognize that time moves forward would be to acknowledge the reality of “toolate.”
A denial of time passing intertwines with delayed motherhood.