The deconstruction of the concept of motherhood in the work of Mónica Ojeda: New perspectives on the way to the origin.

Abstract

In this article we propose to analyze the work of the Ecuadorian writer Mónica Ojeda, in which a discussion about the concept of woman-mother is opened, among other series of relationships between women at a family or affective level. Over time, the Western tradition based on the Judeo-Christian religion has established in Latin America the preconceived idea of women as a being whose main objective is to give themselves to others, whether in love or in caring tasks. Mónica Ojeda proposes in her literature an idea that redefines such mandates, giving an account of the intrinsic violence that surrounds this normalized action of women in society. The author describes the interstices in which violence moves and operates, resulting in a less sweetened vision of the feminine-maternal. We will use the Lacanian concept of the “Big Other”, which describes an implantation of the mother's gaze in the child that is directly related to the learned language or mother tongue and that necessarily leads to his perception of her world. Throughout the development of this work, the term deconstruction will be used, which, approached from the Jacques Derrida philosophy, proposes to dismantle the inherited belief system to give rise to the questioning of these learned behaviors, which are already presented in Ojeda's work. disjointed.