Read the Following Case and Answer the Questions Below

Essay

Read the following case and answer the questions below.
A female profiler has ambivalent feelings about motherhood. She has a teenage child who
is difficult to control and she resents the child and wishes she were not responsible for her. In assessing victimology in a case where a 12-year-old girl was abducted, the profiler focuses on some signals that the mother and the victim did not get along and pursues an avenue of case analysis unconsciously designed to prove that the mother wanted to get rid of the child victim.
-Define this psychoanalytical term.