The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

Author:Alice Miller [Miller, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780786743612
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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*Let me cite a remark by Igor Stravinsky as an example of successful mourning: “I am convinced that it was my misfortune that my father was spiritually very distant from me and that even my mother had no love for me. When my oldest brother died unexpectedly (with my mother transferring her feelings from him onto me, and my father, also, remaining as reserved as ever), I resolved that one day I would show them, now this day has come and gone. No one remembers this day but me, who am its only remaining witness.” This is in marked contrast to a statement by Samuel Beckett: “One could say that I had a happy childhood, although I showed little talent for being happy. My parents did all that can be done to make a child happy, but I often felt very lonely.” Beckett’s childhood drama had been fully repressed, and idealization of the parents had been maintained with the help of denial, yet the boundless isolation of his childhood found expression in his plays. (For both quotations, see Mueller-Braunschweig, 1974.)

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*Suppression is a conscious act, in contrast to repression.

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