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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... depiction of the beginning of human history , is linked to the eye and was the reason Adam and Eve covered themselves with fig leaves . After eat- ing the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil , " the eyes of both were opened ...
... depicts the significance of these feelings in his song entitled " Have Mercy on Me " . Donne , in a poem entitled " Witchcraft in a Picture , " captures the eye's destructible element : I fix mine eye on thine , and there Pity my ...
... depict some terribly shameful act at the point of origin of the human world . Of course the story of Adam and Eve has been men- tioned , but there is also the Shinto story of the shaming of the sun goddess Amaterasu by her violent ...
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Contents
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Mothers eyes | 34 |
Mothers eyes as false mirrors | 61 |
The Evil Eye and the Great Mother | 99 |
The eyes of love | 188 |