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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... words to say it 169 Psychotic anxieties 179 Conclusion 186 7 The eyes of love Symbols of transformation 190 The role of eye - to - eye contact in psychotherapy 206 Conclusion 214 Epilogue : Clinical implications for the field of depth ...
... Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal , © 1975/1996 Van Vactor and Goodheart , translated by P. Goodheart . Reprinted with permission of publisher , Van Vactor and Goodheart , Cambridge , Massachusetts . Excerpts from Myth and Symbol in ...
... word is used . Numerous writers have looked at it as a defense or as the affect behind the defense . Wurmser ( 1997 ) suggests that we consider as cognates the many words by which shame experience is described . This leads to the ...
... words for our English word shame : one to denote the feeling , one to denote the healthy attitudes that define a wholesome character . For example , French pudeur refers to the admirable qualities of modesty , chastity , shyness , a ...
... words and inevitably becomes disconnected . It only reveals itself through an exploration of the deepest levels of inner life ( or poetry and other evocative forms ) . Its articulation requires the language of the inner- most self , a ...
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 |