The Mother/Daughter Plot: Narrative, Psychoanalysis, FeminismMothers and daughters the female figures neglected by classic psychoanalysis and submerged in traditional narrative are at the center of this book. The novels of nineteenth and twentieth century women writers from the Western European and North American traditions reveal that the story of motherhood remains the unspeakable plot of Western culture. Focusing on the feminine and, more controversially, on the maternal, this book alters our perception of