The "times" of maternality

The psychic work to become parents is a process of deep transformation that re-actives mental representations strictly connected to the previous relational history, from which past experiences of attachment with one's own parental figure and childhood observations memories re-emerges, from which branch of the threats and wefts to weave a space that will have to host the future representation of the self as a mother, of one's own partner as a father, and the future child. Therefore, pregnancy and birth are not just facts, subjects to a historical truth, but they are, primarily, Events, characterized by the conscious and the unconscious representations, of those whose paretcipate in them, starting with mothers and fathers.