In exploring her mother's lack of warmth, Bechdel supplements her own recollections with insights from the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, particularly with reference to his notion of the true self and the false self and his theory on transitional objects. The book is Bechdel's attempt to come to grips with her relationship with her mother, an unaffectionate amateur actor trapped in a marriage to a closeted homosexual. The book covers events that occurred before she was born all the way up to the process of editing Are You My Mother? itself. The dream is then interpreted and explained in the context of various events in Bechdel's life, jumping backwards and forwards in time in doing so. Synopsis Īre You My Mother? is composed of seven chapters, each introduced by a description of a dream that Bechdel had. Its title alludes to the 1960 children's picture book Are You My Mother? by P. The book interweaves memoir with psychoanalysis and exploration of various literary works, particularly Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse. The book is a companion piece to her earlier work Fun Home, which deals with her relationship with her father. Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a 2012 graphic memoir written and illustrated by Alison Bechdel, about her relationship with her mother.
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