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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... Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe ( 1750 ) . Photo from Edward Harrison , Darkness at Night : A Riddle of the Universe ( 1987 ) Cambridge : Harvard University Press . 2.1 22 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Mother and Acknowledgements xi.
... theory is presented ) . For now , suffice it to say that shame's paramount significance and prominence in the world of affective experience has been firmly established . It is being hailed as the master emotion , the invisible regulator ...
... theory is maternally biased , and informed by the work of Winnicott , Fordham , and Jung whose the- ories are also maternally biased . It focusses on the infant's develop- ment in the first six months of life , and the role that eyes ...
... 329) Sylvan Tomkins (1962), who followed in Darwin's steps and was the first to develop a theory of affects by closely observing faces, describes the importance of the face in expressing shame. He states that the common countenance is a.
... theory of affects by closely observing faces , describes the importance of the face in expressing shame . He states that the common countenance is a shrinking from the world , hoping the ground beneath your feet will open and swallow ...
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 |