Chelsea's+Truth+Project

My project explores the relationship between mothers and thier children, including humans and animals. Mothers visually represent the truth that love undeniably exists. This is a love that is inexplicable and can be understood only when you became a mother yourself. A mother who adopts a child experiences the same feeling as a mother who gives birth to her own child. The act of taking a child under your care is something that changes you, it doesn't matter the situation. The display of maternal instincts towards a child who is not genetically one's own is shown perfcectly by this video: media type="youtube" key="Gpfvkeo0KBc" height="344" width="425"

The love a mother has of her child can result from the fact that she may have loved her child before having him, she may have desired him and hoped for him; she may even have desperately wanted a child, loved the child she did not have, suffered from paternal Eros. When the child actually comes the mother must learn to love the real child and the child she dreamed of for the mother loves her child as he is, not as she wished him to be. The family is almost always the future of the couple, hence the future of love, as well as its beginning. Freud beleive all love is transference, so it begins as something received and only later is something we learn to give. This preparation is the family. The family enables that love. First the mother and child: love received, prolonged, and sumblimated, at once forbidden (//as eros//) and saved (as //philia//). Aristotle is manifestly moved by those mothers who have to give away their babies at birth for the children's good and never see them again yet who for the rest of their lives will continue to love them, unrequitedly and hopelessly, more concerned for their children's well-being than for their own and ready to sacrifice the latter to the former, if such a distinction can even be made. Such love is pure benevolence and is noble. A mother and her new born infant: Generosity in the mother, desire, drive, animality in the chid. The child takes; the mother gives. Pleasure for him; joy for her. Every mother was once a child, and every child is born of a mother. The philosopher Alain says "The less proof a mother has, the more intent she is on loving, helping, and serving. This human truth, which she carries in her arms, may be nothing that exists in the world." Sponville goes on to say that the love of parents, of mothers particularly, is manifest through the reality we are able to observe each day. He says that mothers have most of the virtues that we lack. Their emmense love encompasses these virtues--they are faithful, prudent, courageous, merciful, gently, sincere, cimple, pure, compassionate, and just. He acknowledges that mothers are also capable of madness, hysteria, possessiveness, ambivalence, pride, violence, jealousy, anguish, sadness, and narcissism but even in these "maternal vices" there is love. He claims that unconditional love may exist nowhere else but in the love of a mother (or of a father) for that mortal god whom they have begotten (not created), for this son of man (for this daughter of man) born of woman. --ideas from Sponville's //A Small Treatise on the Great Virtures//, chapter "Love"