Stekel recounts a complex case of 'maternal hatred' of a daughter: I know a mother who disliked at birth her fourth daughter, a quiet charming girl She claimed that this child had inherited, in concentrated measure, all her father's unpleasant traits The child was born to her during the year when this exalted, dreamy woman had fallen passionately in love with another man, a poet, who was courting her during her husband's embraces