Of Mothers and Other Collective Lovers: Inspired by Kyoko Taniguchi's “The Eroticism of the Maternal: So What If Everything Is About the Mother?”.

Inspired by Kyoko Taniguchi's article (this issue), I deploy the Japanese concept amae to engage the mother as a collective erotic object. Amae also helps me express gratitude to my psychoanalytic mothers for their tireless efforts on behalf of this journal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]