Elicitive Conflict Mapping by Wolfgang Dietrich

Author:Wolfgang Dietrich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

She experiences a difficult time in her private life at the same time. Claire’s once dominant and dynamic mother by now is suffering dementia and needs constant help and attention. In the beginning her husband, Aidan, takes care of her mother in Ireland. When her condition worsens, however, he feels overwhelmed and puts her into a care facility. This causes an argument between Claire and Aidan, since she expects him to care for her mother personally.

Aidan is about 20 years older than Claire, 31 diligently takes care of matters at home as well as of the senile mother, patiently enduring Claire’s moods and instructions from afar. He meekly allows himself to be dislodged from his position behind their car’s steering wheel when Claire cannot stand his defensive style of driving. He does not seem to have a job of his own or indeed any interests at all. His function seems to be entirely to serve under the rule of both women. By not believing that Claire’s career could steeply rise a long time ago—contrary to her ambitious mother—Aidan burdened himself with an evidently inexcusable debt towards his wife. The fact that he now unconditionally supports her does not seem to serve as an excuse for his past behaviour. This relegated him to the role of a servant who appears colourless, boring and meticulous. When Claire reproaches him for housing her mother in a nursing home and does not want to accept that caring for her mother was starting to overwhelm him, he asks her where she was for all the years that her mother needed care. By saying this he hits her sore spot and she cries in self-blame. She is haunted by guilt towards her mother. She exaggerates her guilt in her recollection, yet does not express love towards the old woman in their encounter. Affection, love or sexuality seem not to play even the faintest part in Claire’s relationship to Aidan. Rather, he seems to fill the empty space in her life left by her absent father. 32 Everything in their relationship revolves around Claire’s career. As a character, she is walled in by emotional armour. Burning ambition and a manipulative way of dealing with the category of guilt are extraordinary traits of the talented politician.

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