« The idealization of maternal love is one of the taboos that have survived all the demystification tendencies of that time. »
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Alice Miller
The drama of the gifted child |
Alice Miller
The drama of the gifted child
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« There was no clemency for the millions of prisoners in the Gulag Archipelago. They could, without trial, be beaten, tortured, killed or released from captivity for no apparent reason. It all depended on the arbitrariness of a tyrant who thought he saw attacks and enemies everywhere, because he had lived very early under a permanent threat and there had been no one near him to tell him that the whole world was not like his father: wicked, dangerous, unpredictable and terrorizing. When this infinite helplessness of the child does not find protective arms to take refuge in, it can only change into a ruthless hardness. When she is, moreover, stimulated by the mother's ambition, she can lead to a great career, which will bring into the history of the world all the elements of misfortune lived but repressed. And then millions of men are shipped to Katorga or the gas chambers, without knowing why. Because once, the little child didn't know either. How long will we tolerate these absurd routes when we may finally know where the causes are? »
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Alice Miller
The silent suffering of the child |
Alice Miller
The silent suffering of the child
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« A human being capable of sincerely admitting his feelings, without self-mystification, does not need to be blundered by ideologies and, therefore, will not be a danger to others. »
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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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