All My Mothers: The heart-breaking new novel from the author of the Costa-shortlisted debut, THE OTHER HALF OF AUGUSTA HOPE

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Rochelle Humes reveals what husband Marvin's secret signal could REALLY mean as he taps his heart four times on I'm A CelebrityOne such film is Pedro Almodovar’s movie All About My Mother (1999). Almodovar dedicated this work to “Betty Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider… to all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers, to my mother”. The film tells the story of a young man wanting to explore the circumstances of his birth, to know the father he has never met, and in so doing to come to know more about the nature of his mother. It is a richly textured film, full of references to movies and theatre and theatre life, and the many interacting allusions illustrate the themes of the dedication. The film is of interest to the psychoanalyst because I believe it portrays processes described as projective identification, particularly in the form of intrusive identification. This refers to the process whereby one part or the whole of the person’s personality is experienced in phantasy as entering into another personality, producing a variety of effects on both personalities. I want to use this film to discuss these processes and in particular, to examine the influence on identity formation.

Kate Middleton proves Omid Scobie's cruel Stepford Wife jibes are far from the truth - from abseiling cliffs in Wales to confident speechesMs Keenan also accepted the offer of free abdominal muscle repair surgery shortly before she was taken into the operating theatre. In a film we may discern a structural configuration which recurs in different forms throughout. I am indebited to a colleague Richard O’Neill-Dean for suggesting the term cinetheme for such a recurrent motif. This is by analogy with the term mytheme, used by mythologists to refer to a similar configuration in myths. For example, we might think of the motif of emerging from water. Moses is lifted from the bullrushes, Jesus emerges from the river after baptism by John. In a film, this motif may be as obvious as the hero stepping from a boat onto the shores of the new found land, or as fleeting as his face emerging from being splashed in a basin of water. In All About My Mother I want to highlight the cinetheme of the transplant, of an organ or body part of one person being placed in the body of another. This recurs in many manifest forms, and I will argue that the process of intrusive identification is the latent theme which provides coherence to the cluster. In the particular forms taken throughout the film, the underlying phantasy is that the child enters into the identity of the mother and becomes the mother by taking over that identity. This reverses the difference between child and adult, and the child in phantasy appropriates the capabilities and prerogatives of adulthood, but while still a child. This is the essential point. Katherine Ryan says she turned down I'm A Celebrity because she is 'against glorifying dangerous people like Nigel Farage' for entertainment

Manuela is a single mother living in Madrid. She takes her son Esteban on his seventeenth birthday to see a production of A Streetcar Named Desire starring Huma Rojo. Moved by the performances, they wait for autographs. Manuela, who has told Esteban nothing about his father except that he died before Esteban was born, confesses she once played Stella to his father's Stanley. She promises she will tell him more once they return home. Huma and her co-star Niña appear and board a taxi. Running after Esteban is hit by a car. He dies and Manuela donates his organs. Later, she decides to honour Esteban's last wish by going to Barcelona to find his father and tell him about his son. Nicola Roberts cuts an elegant figure in plunging forest green midi dress as she attends the Wonka premiereThe chilling step-by-step plan to murder Brianna Ghey: Teenagers plotted to 'slit her throat and dismember body' as court hears teen tried to cover up crime by posting tribute to the transgender schoolgirl Almodóvar's detractors will also find ammunition here. The two good mothers have no active sex lives and work in traditionally feminine and caring occupations (Manuela is a nurse, Rosa a nun - significantly Rosa's more selfish mother is a forger; she doesn't create, she merely reproduces). Fathers (so noticeably missing in Almodóvar's oeuvre) are absent. Esteban was erased from his first son's life when he chose to become Lola; he will die before his second son learns to say "papa". Sister Rosa's senile father can't even recognise his daughter, much less help her. Coroner slams 'insensitive' comments made by Ofsted chiefs ahead of inquest into headteacher Ruth Perry who...

It was not until Mrs Bamgbose called her husband to say she was suffering from stomach pains following the procedure that he found out what had happened. The processes described under the term projective identification all relate to formation and alterations of identity by primitive means, portrayed in phantasy as the splitting of the personality and projecting of parts of the self or internal objects into another person, leading to a variety of identifications. Three forms may be distinguished. In one, the evacuative form, parts of the self that are intolerable are projected and felt to belong to the other, leaving one’s senses of identity completely free of the evacuated parts. In the intrusive form, a part of the self again goes over into the other, but this time one’s sense of identity goes with the projection and identity takes the form of living in the other, and of being a part or even the whole of the other. Melanie Klein has discussed these processes in great detail in her paper “On Identification” in which she uses the novel “If I Were You” (Klein 1955).In the communicative form, described by Bion as normal or realistic projective identification, the projection serves the function of being a primitive preverbal mode of making the other experience and know one’s overwhelming experiences, that cannot be mentally processed in oneself. In clinical manifestations, these processes are often experienced concretely in bodily terms, such as invasion, intrusion, claustrophobia, being robbed or impoverished, or of acquiring great riches, beauty or power. Love Island's Sammy Root speaks out on Jess Harding split and reveals why he's not looking to get into another relationship Sophie Habboo puts on a leggy display in pink corset-style top as she joins dapper husband Jamie Laing at the Wonka premiere To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider…To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to men who act and become women, to all people who want to become mothers. To my mother.”Turkey has become one of the most popular destinations, fuelled by celebrities and influencers who've made the four-hour trip in pursuit of revamping their bodies. A mother-of-one was left fighting for her life after undergoing a botched 'mummy makeover' in Turkey when her breasts started oozing with pus. Danielle Harold's mother touches down in Australia as she declares the soap star is 'already a winner in her eyes' King Charles will 'never reach status of the Queen who would always rise over 'problematic' family members, Omid Scobie says in new book Mon 5 Jul 20:50; Wed 14 Jul 18:00 (+ pre-recorded intro by Geoff Andrew, Programmer-at-Large); Sun 25 Jul 15:00