A bibliotherapeutic reading of alice in wonder-mother-blogging land

ABSTRACT

The paper is suggesting a bibliotherapeutic reading of the virtual texts of Israeli blogger moms via Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, introducing the reader to the range of literary representations of the mother in Lewis Carroll’s well-known work and the real mother as a patient in the clinical context. Here, the maternal text emerges as a transitional object that allows mothers to cope with the existential paradoxes of their daily lives and experience their lives as meaningful, suggesting that the creative maternal experience is a transitional experience. Like Alice, the playing mothers’ developmental transition is in the form of a shift from daily life into the realm of fantasy and virtual fiction.

KEYWORDS:

• Bibliotherapy
• motherhood
• subjectivity
• weblogs
• and writing therapy

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174939.