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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... feeling that I had something worthwhile to say, which in turn gave me the confidence to pursue its publication. And last, Virginia Hendrickson, whose seminars on object relations and the work of Winnicott inspired many questions, and ...
... feeling that I had something worthwhile to say , which in turn gave me the confidence to pursue its publication . And last , Virginia Hendrickson , whose seminars on object relations and the work of Winnicott inspired many questions ...
... feelings had previously been divided into fragments to be considered separately: social anxiety, sense of inferiority, narcissistic injury, embarrassment, or dread. Though not always synonomous with shame experience, all of these ...
... feeling in shame of being looked at while hoping the ground beneath your feet will open and swallow you up . Ancient and modern writers of all persuasions - psychologists , anthropologists , philosophers , and novelists - have long ...
... feeling is hard to modulate , so one naturally seeks to avoid it . Jacoby ( 1990 ) says that the historically rare ... feelings , and is laid bare in the shadows of the unconscious . What remains neglected in this proliferation of ...
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 |