Psycho Lens

          Reading "Motherhood in Toni Morrison's Beloved: A Psychological Reading" by Sand Mayfield has an interesting point that I have to agree on, as well as her main point. Sandra comes to recognize this theorist Jacques Lacan whose theory is that all unborn baby go through the "mirror stage," He says that a unborn baby while still is in the mother womb, basically absorbs all of the moms surroundings in to reflect that environment its absorbing. So Sethe experiecing her mothers death and a run away slaves with memories of "sweet home." That all got to her and while she was pregnant. Causing her kids to have this negative aspect and probability run away kids because Sethe experienced running away to. So it was in their mentality all along to run away but in the book they actually run away because they were afraid of their own mother killing them. Sandra argues that Sethe mentality was also damaged maybe unborn by something darker which I believe is true. I mean she witnessed her own mother get lynched imagine before her lynching what she actually experienced still as a former slave. So Sethes mental ability was probably reflected when in her mother wombs absorbing this negative impacts her mother was going through "reflecting" them onto Sethes mental Ability.
          What I also cought up on is that Sandra basically stating her main point that despite slavery women were still seen as inferior. It wasn't mostly about the racism but more of the sexist part that Sandra tries to tackle as her main point. Sandra tackles on this because she confronts the actual hardhsip of being a mother and the concept of motherhood. Agreeing with this point because Sandra also cited this part of women being slaved. It was that all the women had the last name "Gardner" which was their owners name and not their actual husbands. Thats how inhuman they were seen at especially slaves last names were taken which is considered their pride and orgins. They were taken that away and claimed as pets.