Maternal Love as Narcissistic Deprivation: On the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Everything I Never Told You
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You, both the two generations’ mother-daughter relationships witness the maternal use of the daughter as “obscure maternal double”, as the daughter unwittingly suffers from the mother’s narcissistic deprivation in the name of maternal love. This thesis attempts to illustrate that the profound shaping motivation of the daughter’s tragedy lies in the mother’s desire and practice of power-participation in a patriarchal society. Under the phallocentric culture that strangles female voice, the mother-figure establishes identity and gains authority by materializing her daughter as a receptive vase, strangling her development of an autonomous sense of self through the operation of doll complex and symbiotic illusion. This traps her into a dualistic power paradigm, which makes her voluntarily or subconsciously play the role of a maintainer and a conspirator to patriarchy, and this power-operation mode bears great generational continuity from mothers to daughters.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".