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The creation of meaning during pregnancy
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In this paper, we share some initial findings from PhD research on the psychic
processes of pregnancy. Our aim is to make visible the invisible work of the pregnant
woman’s mind. As Tyler and Baraitser (2013) note, ‘the 1960s marked the rise of
foetal celebrity, and the 1990s witnessed the breaking of a taboo on the visibility of
the pregnant body’ (p. 7). But as these authors also note, ‘today pregnancy is a disciplinary
‘body project’ which women are instructed to covet and enjoy’ (p. 7). This,
we believe, may be another way of rendering the subjective experience of pregnancy
invisible, as it is an instruction that women are supposed to comply with. An instruction
that silences the extreme, conflicting and confusing emotions that, beneath
the skin, on the dark side of the womb (Raphael-Leff, 2015), pregnancy also is. We
then hope to illuminate that invisible and always subjective experience, by exploring
some aspects of a narrative from a woman we have called ‘Petra,’ a pregnant woman
interviewed as a participant in our study.
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Studies in the Maternal, 8(1), 1-15. Doi: 10.16995/sim.215
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Open Library of Humanities