The author proposes to confiront the two contiguous fields of the feminine and the maternai based on Freud's considerations on the “black continent”, i.e. femininity, and on the notion of feminine jouissance deployed by Jacques Lacan.
In the light of clinical psychoanalytical psychopathology, this article aims to highlight that if Oedipus does not make The Woman, the fact of the devastation which is its consequence invades the feminine, as well as the maternai. Indeed, the opaque part of the mother's jouissance, i.e. the feminine in the mother, contaminates both the woman's femininity and her maternity, as shown by the devastating relationship that can exist between a daughter and her mother.
Thus, we point out that no more than becoming a woman, becoming a mother is not given from the outset, it is rather constructed from the relationship with language, with fantasy, with jouissance and with the Other in the figure of maternal love, for each one.
Key words:
Feminine; maternai; jouissance; devastation