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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... felt need to journey through shame freed from the eyes of scientific scrutiny - those same objectifying eyes that can generate shame in the first place . It is hoped that this look into shame will reveal its earliest development ...
... felt as pleasurable ( Nathanson , 1992 ) . Whatever communication has only shortly before been produced by interaffectivity is severed , and speech becomes impossible . One moment you can feel like a worth- while human being , and the ...
... felt experiences in relation to the human eye . The remainder of this chapter will focus on the varied explanations in the literature of its origins and role in devel- opment . Is shame a manifestation of pathological narcissism , the ...
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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 |