A bibliotherapeutic reading of alice in wonder-mother-blogging land.

The paper is suggesting a bibliotherapeutic reading of the virtual texts of Israeli blogger moms viaAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland, introducing the reader to the range of literary representations of the mother in Lewis Carroll’s well-known work and the real mother as a patient in the clinical context. Here, the maternal text emerges as a transitional object that allows mothers to cope with the existential paradoxes of their daily lives and experience their lives as meaningful, suggesting that the creative maternal experience is a transitional experience. Like Alice, the playing mothers’ developmental transition is in the form of a shift from daily life into the realm of fantasy and virtual fiction. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]