Mother and Child

The relationship with our mother is our most complex attachment. She was there before we were aware that we existed. She sheltered our lives and nourished us through the umbilical cord.
There are no limits and the child live in a symbiotic relationship with his/her mother. A symbiosis that continues even after birth. It is obvious that this creates the strongest bond of them all.
Desperate are the mother and child connected which create ambivalent ties.
Already through the breast milk, perhaps even through the umbilical cord, the child will have access to a mother of both "good" and "evil" by that ”mother archetype” she constitute for her child.
In consequence the ambivalence to the physical mother often becomes greatly
A duality that may be hard to handle for both mother and child..


It is often the first and sometimes the last word we say is: Mom. She is the beginning and the end by the immense power that she has is capacity also of ”the great mother” and her archetypal energy .
A part that in all probability no living mother can live up to.
But in the child's world and even for many adults Mother Earth, is around which, as they in ancient times believed, all the other planets are spinning. So even the sun, as in the myths symbolise our father, who with his power and energy gives life and warmth to Mother Earth.
Our mother is the soil where our talents to grow or atrophy is entirely depending on the nutritional care the small plant will have. So we are vulnerable

Many children plants seeking convulsively to detain in the crumbs of earth they have been assigned to, grow despite all odds, blow themselves up through the asphalt if necessary. They are our, in Swedish called ,”maskrosbarn” (dandelion child)
Others die from that malnutrition. Some feel uncomfortable to have been fattened up
So there is the group whose "Earth" has been "good enough"

As mothers we don’t need to be any more than humans. We can never live up to the myth of ourselves anyway. We have to be satisfied with just being "good enough"

We had no chance to choose our soil. We had to make the best of the offered
But never the less how little fuel there was , for most of us Mum is always Mum.

Precisely because the relationship is so associated with the greatest of myths, riddles and mysteries; The emergence of life.