All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysands to foist their problems onto the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. —Germaine Greer More about this quote Tags: society money problems mother motherhood psychoanalysis Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email