Pregnancy vomiting reflects unconscious rejection of the child

Evidence

Stekel asserts that the pregnant woman’s vomiting always expresses a certain rejection of the child; and if the child is greeted with hostility—often for unavowed reasons—gastric troubles are exacerbated. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1454

Categorization

• QUESTION: Stekel’s strong claim that vomiting always expresses rejection — worth checking how this Psychosomatic claim was received and later overturned.
• XREF: Connects to modern psychosomatic medicine and to the later critique of the ‘psychological’ framing of women’s bodily distress. — connects to: Pregnancy symptoms express simultaneous desire to reject and conserve the fetus — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1455; Pregnancy collapses the subject-object opposition that normally drives transcendence — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1449; Maternal guilt and self-pity can manifest as suffocating, destructive over-protectiveness — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1521 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• A mother’s rejection of a child can disguise self-contempt projected outward. #expands (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1525
• Pregnancy collapses the subject-object opposition that normally drives transcendence #expands (0.70) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1449
• Maternal guilt and self-pity can manifest as suffocating, destructive over-protectiveness #expands (0.70) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1521