The article discusses the peculiarities of the mother‘s construct in Slovenian culture on the example of works by the classic of national literature Ivan Сankar and the feminist writer Zofka Kveder. An idealized figure of the mother appears in the texts of Сankar, correlated with both the mother of the nation and the Mother of God. The concept of -Сankar‘s mother‖ in Slovenian culture has become a common noun. A new interpretation of this cultural construct we find in the texts of the writer Zofka Kveder. in which the differentiation of maternal characters is evident, appearing in different roles (from a loving mother to a child-killer), comparable to the different forms of the mother's archetype.