You can talk endlessly about maternal love. But it is unlikely that anyone will ever describe this phenomenon more comprehensively than Anatoly Nekrasov. The mother’s love, according to the writer, is so distinguished from other types of love that it is impossible not to notice. It contains many impurities and shades of feelings: attachment to a child, selfishness towards him, a desire for self-affirmation, a sense of ownership, even pride. And, unfortunately, love itself is negligible in this gamut ... So Nekrasov believes, and he conveys this idea to us in his brilliant work “Maternal love”.
Within a few years after the release, the book was reprinted dozens of times and was translated into several languages. The volume of the work is small, but it touched on such problems that turned the worldview of hundreds of thousands of people, opening them a new look at their own destinies. “Maternal love” is not just a work of art, but a whole system. A system that allows you to see the family foundations, the relationships of family members from completely different angles.
The author considers here another, different from the generally accepted, side of the mother’s love for the child. According to Nekrasov, maternal love can bring a lot of suffering not only to children, not only to the mother herself, but also to the surrounding society. Especially when this love is redundant. A similar situation is inherent in some peoples more, some less, but, nevertheless, relevant throughout the world. And this creates a lot of problems ...
Needless to say, “Maternal Love” made a decent noise after its publication? Hundreds of reactions, thousands of points of view were its natural consequence. Many women, after the beginning of reading, discovered something new in themselves, changed the usual order of thoughts and made very diverse conclusions. Some simply threw away the book, unable to read more than a page. However, the read chapters of “Motherly Love” were taken for granted, did not let go, forced to return to them again and again. And these same women found, bought, read the book again, literally through force.
What happened then? Readers felt the deepest gratitude to the author for expressing what they themselves could not formulate. Relations between mothers and their children became completely different. Not only women, but also men showed unusual interest in the book. “Maternal love” has even become a handbook for some psychologists, and still helps them in solving complex and complicated family problems.
Anatoly Nekrasov himself
, a member of the Union of Russian Writers and an experienced psychologist, was a leading specialist in
family relations. I must say that far from his only work in a psychological vein was "Motherly Love." Nekrasov wrote more than three dozen books on harmony in the soul of man, his personal growth against the background of various aspects of life. The most famous of them are Living Thoughts, Man and Woman, as well as 1000 and One Way to Be Yourself. These books will turn your point of view on life, make you observe the world and independently find a lot of evidence written on paper by the words of a brilliant author.