The Maternal Identity

‫הפקולטה למדעי הרווחה והבריאות‬ Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences ‫בית הספר לטיפול באמצעות אמנויות‬ February 2026 Graduate School of Creative Arts Therapies Volume 15 Issue 1 Academic Journal of Creative Arts Therapies The Maternal Identity in the... More

‫הפקולטה למדעי הרווחה והבריאות‬ Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences ‫בית הספר לטיפול באמצעות אמנויות‬ February 2026 Graduate School of Creative Arts Therapies Volume 15 Issue 1 Academic Journal of Creative Arts Therapies The Maternal Identity in the Poems of Rachel Halfi Inbar Raveh, Tal Menachem Raveh & Menachem (2026). The Maternal Identity in the Poems of Rachel Halfi. Academic Journal of Creative Arts Therapies, 15(1), page 550 Rachel Halfi's motherhood poetry focusses on her son and her relationship with him. Some of the poems were collected in the book "Miklaat Hashemesh" and later were collected again in "Poems to Daniel" with changes of varying importance. These are diary poems written over the years, from Daniel's birth in 1983 until his release from the army. This article discusses poems that refer to the beginning of the relationship between the mother and her baby/young child, poems in which, among other things, her maternal identity is being constituted. It seeks t Less