TY - JOUR AB - <p>Offers a reading of "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" based on Julia Kristeva's theories of "the maternal role in language acquisition and subject formation" and childhood encounters with the "abject."</p> AU - Beth Jensen DA - 2001/4// DO - 10.13008/2153-3695.1654 IS - 4 VL - 18 PB - University of Iowa PY - 2001 TI - Ambiguous Struggle: Abjecting the M/other in "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" T2 - Walt Whitman Quarterly Review UR - https://pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/wwqr/article/id/26603/ ER -