« The stifling of freedom and the compulsion to adapt do not begin in the office, the factory or the political party, but from the first weeks of life. This yoke will later be repressed and that is why it will remain, by its nature, inaccessible to any argument. For the nature of adaptation or subjection does not change when only one of its object is replaced by another. »
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Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child |
Alice Miller
The future of the drama of the gifted child
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« (From a letter from Freud at the beginning of his work (a truth he could not assume and later turned away by calling this kind of account "fantasies"): "And it emerges there that this father, otherwise supposedly noble and respectable, regularly took her in bed when she was between 8 and 12 years old and used it externally ("wet it", nocturnal visits). She was already scared then. A sister, 6 years her senior, to whom she had later opened herself, had confessed to her that she had experienced the same thing with the father. A cousin told her that when she was 15, she had to defend herself from the grandfather's embraces. Of course, when I told her that similar and even more serious things must have happened in very early childhood, she did not find it incredible. Moreover, it is a very common hysteria with the usual symptoms." »
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Alice Miller
The child in terror |
Alice Miller
The child in terror
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« His tolerance is limitless, he is always faithful and even proud that his father, who beats him like a bully, never hurts a beast; and he is ready to forgive him all, to always take all the blame on him, to feel no hatred, to quickly forget what happened.............. »
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Alice Miller
It's for your own good. |
Alice Miller
It's for your own good.
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