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 Eyes of Shame Mary Y. Ayers. Mother - Infant Attachment and 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 understand- ing of this ...
The Eyes of Shame Mary Y. Ayers. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The eyes of shame Shame defined 7 An analysis of the developmental origins of shame 24 Conclusion 32 2 Mother's eyes The eye as face 42 Infant research 50 ...
The Eyes of Shame Mary Y. Ayers. 5 The eyes of the Terrible Mother 6 The Eye of Death 120 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 ...
... shame , the world is full of eyes , crowded with things and people that can see . Bewitching eyes watch every movement and moment of self . The core of agony in shame is this element of exposure . One is visible and not ready to be seen ...
The Eyes of Shame Mary Y. Ayers. ( Genesis 3 : 7 ) . On both a collective , archetypal level and an indi- vidual , developmental one , shame manifests itself ... eye interaction and its internalization in the 2 Introduction The eyes of shame.
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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 |