Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis: The Eyes of ShameWinner of the 2004 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. The issue of shame has become a central topic for many writers and therapists in recent years, but it is debatable how much real understanding of this powerful and pervasive emotion we have achieved. Mother-Infant Attachment and Psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflected look in the mother's eyes, and that this shame is then internalised by the infant and reverberates through its later life. The author further expands on this concept of the look through a powerful and extensive study of the concept of the Evil Eye, an enduring universal belief that eyes have the power to inflict injury. Finally, she presents ways of healing shame within a clinical setting, and provides a fascinating analysis of the role of eye-contact in the therapeutic encounter. |
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... The eye as false mirror 72 Conclusion 97 4 The Evil Eye and the Great Mother 99 The Evil Eye 100 The Great Mother 110 The eyes of the Great Mother 115 Conclusion 118 5 The eyes of the Terrible Mother The Eye of Table of Contents.
The Eyes of Shame Mary Y. Ayers. 5 The eyes of the Terrible Mother The Eye of Death 120 6 The Eye of the Terrible Mother in Ancient Egypt 125 The petrifying face of Medusa 132 The fiery eyes of the Baba Yaga 137 Conclusion 142 The look A ...
... mother ” must also be understood as the negative pole of the mother archetype called the Terrible Mother . This is an emotionally charged , internalized form of mother in a complex psychic situation that takes on the collective ...
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Contents
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2 Mothers eyes | 34 |
3 Mothers eyes as false mirrors | 61 |
4 The Evil Eye and the Great Mother | 99 |
5 The eyes of the Terrible Mother | 120 |
6 The look | 146 |
7 The eyes of love | 188 |
Clinical implications for the field of depth psychology | 216 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 235 |