Arnon Grunberg

Father

Model

Time for Adam Phillips: "Temporarily the mother can be everything to the child, but the child cannot possibly be everything for the mother. He can't feed her or sexually satisfy her. From the child's point of view the mother is - as the father will soon be - a model of promiscuity. She has a thousand things to do. She knows other people."

A good definition of "mother": a model of promiscuity.