From a piece on a Psychology Today blog references Baby Love. It's good to see professionals who understand the subtext of complex relationships.  

By Dr. Terri Apter on December 15, 2008, on mother-daughter envy:

"Half a century after Deutsche, Susie Orbach, Kim Chernin and others
argued that young women's expanding career opportunities can (albeit
not always) arouse a mother's envy. A daughter may hold herself back,
terrified that, if she does surpass her mother, she will be forced to
eat of those proverbial poisoned apples - in the form of maternal
disapproval, disdain, guilt. Or, she may hope to win approval by her
success, only to find that success does not give her mother pleasure;
instead, her mother responds with envy, which a daughter experiences as
disapproval.