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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... Infant research 50 Conclusion 59 3 Mother's eyes as false mirrors The eye as mirror 63 The eye as false mirror 72 Conclusion 97 ix 1 7 34 61 4 The Evil Eye and the Great Mother 99 The Evil Eye 100 The Great Mother 110 The eyes of the ...
... infant research and observations , but shame experienced at this infantile level has not yet been phenomenologic- ally described at any length in the literature ( with the exception of Wurmser's 1997 book entitled The Mask of Shame ...
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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 |