Despite concerns that, with the rise of popular feminism, we may be post-postfeminism, a postfeminist sensibility is “both intensifying and becoming hegemonic.” What is notable about this renewed postfeminist sensibility is its “turn to interiority,” interpellating subjects through an affective script of happiness and positivity. The mother is a central subject in this construction; she is called forth to display blissful joy and happiness at all times. In contradistinction to the demand for maternal happiness, this article suggests that maternal ambivalence is an emotional state where the hegemony of postfeminism’s affects can be registered and critiqued. Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk about Kevin (2011) illuminates the feminist political strategies at work in the representation of maternal ambivalence. Reading the film’s mother through ambivalence, this article argues that We Need to Talk about Kevin offers a radical departure from postfeminism’s affective orientation towards maternal happiness.

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琳恩·拉姆齐（Lynne Ramsay）的《我们需要谈谈凯文》（2011）中的后女权主义、矛盾心理和母亲

尽管有人担心，随着流行女权主义的兴起，我们可能是后后女权主义，但后女权主义的敏感性“既在加剧，又在变得霸权”。这种新的后女权主义感性值得注意的是它“转向内在性”，通过幸福和积极的情感脚本来询问主题。在这个结构中，母亲是一个中心主题；她被要求在任何时候都表现出幸福的喜悦和幸福。与对母性幸福的需求不同，本文认为母性矛盾心理是一种可以记录和批判后女权主义影响的情绪状态。琳恩·拉姆齐 (Lynne Ramsay) 的《我们需要谈谈凯文》（2011 年）阐明了女性主义政治策略在表现母性矛盾心理方面的作用。