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« In my opinion, the "wasted time" that the narrator seeks `in Proust's work` is this life of strong emotions not consciously experienced. »
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Alice Miller
Our bodies never lie |
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Alice Miller
Our bodies never lie
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« How do you define "child abuse"? For me it is abuse when a child is not respected, humiliated, deceived or sexually abused. In fact, in all these cases I am rarely contradicted. On the other hand, I cannot inform parents that hitting a child is a case of abuse that is not without consequences. Everywhere we call this practice education. Corporal punishment has been practiced for millennia and is seen as a way to educate children in the best possible way. Almost all parents today were beaten as children and unfortunately they were forced to learn early from their parents that this practice was harmless and fair. So this erroneous "knowledge" is recorded by the brain and most people have trouble erasing it. To understand otherwise would mean questioning their own parents and would frighten most people. They expect to be punished precisely because the truth was forbidden to the child. »
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Alice Miller
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Alice Miller
(Source unknown)
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« Seeing the passion with which Catholic clerics - men who have chosen not to have children - fight abortion, one is led to wonder what drives them. Is it to show that unre lifetime- like perhaps their own destiny - is more important and precious than life lived? Is this perhaps the opinion of the parents of the virulent opponents of abortion, even though they have formulated it differently? Or is it a matter of inflicting on others the fate that one has known oneself? All these motivations are possible, and identically dangerous, because they push, in the darkness of repression, to indiscriminate and destructive actions. »
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Alice Miller
Breaking down the wall of silence |
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Alice Miller
Breaking down the wall of silence
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