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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... connection in the psyche . This split masks the deepest and earliest developmental aspects of shame , by their very nature dark , elusive and instinctually wanting to stay hidden behind many faces and voices . In order for the most ...
... connected with embarrassment , as in dreams of being naked ( Hultberg , 1986 : 159 ) . Prior to the recent surge of interest , theorists subsumed shame under other emotions , mainly guilt , whereas shame as an independ- ent affect was ...
... connected with the deepest layers of the psyche . The blush , a visible expression of shame , offers a clue to shame being distinctively human . As Nietzsche ( quoted in Wurmser , 1997 : 98 ) declares , " Man is the creature who blushes ...
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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 |