Journal de Etica y Cine

Volumen 12 | N° 2

JULY 2022
JULY 2022 - OCTUBER 2022

Regretting Mothers in The Lost Daughter

The Lost Daughter | Maggie Gyllenhaal | 2021

Universidad de Buenos Aires
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)

Abstract

The proposal aims to recover some reading keys of the book Regretting Motherhood. Wenn Mütter bereuen by Orna Donath (2016) from the story developed by the film The Lost Daughter by Maggie Gyllenhaal (2021). Donath’s research starts from reflecting on a phenomenon that many women experience, but which is not talked about: recognizing themselves as regretting mothers. The analysis follows the story of Leda, an Italian literature professor who, after a random encounter with a young mother, recalls and updates her own motherhood. The essay reviews the relationship of women with themselves as mothers, considering her role, but also the myths that link motherhood with an inexorable destiny for women.

Keywords: Motherhood | Regret | Myth | Gender

This article is, for the time being, only available in Spanish: Madres arrepentidas en The Lost Daughter

NOTAS

Etica y Cine (Ethics & Films) is a Peer Reviewed Quarterly Journal Edited by
Department of Psychoanalysis and Department of Deontology, School of Psychology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina
Department of Psychology, Ethics and Human Rights, School of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
With the collaboration of:
Center for Medical Ethics (CME), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
Under the auspicious of:
The International Network of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

Regretting Mothers in The Lost Daughter

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