‘No one can ever really forgive their mother.

A child’s dependence on the mother is tainted by his fear of harming her when he felt let down, as he always did, and by his terror of abandonment. 

A child’s question of his mother might be franed as follows: how do you sustain contact with someone you need when you are all too often enraged with her? How can you ever be confident that your love is stronger, and better, than your hate?