Thou Shalt Not Be Aware by Alice Miller

Author:Alice Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

Since the patient had been sexually abused, tormented, threatened, and dominated by his older sister from earliest childhood and later learned that his beloved father preferred her to him, perhaps his lack of grief at her suicide was the expression of his true self. He was glad that he was now the “sole heir” to the fortune, i.e., to his parents’ love as well. The fact that this feeling was ambivalent, since the Wolf-Man was also attached to his sister in some respects, does not mean it did not exist. Yet the passage indicates, among other things, how greatly Freud’s interpretive work was influenced by his pedagogical way of thinking and by his own childhood (he had five sisters before his brother Alexander, his junior by ten years, was born). To substantiate this thesis fully would require writing a new book about the Wolf-Man that would point out in some detail the traces of “poisonous pedagogy” in Freud’s approach. I do not see this as my task, even though it might be educationally useful to investigate Freud’s pedagogical attitudes, which mirrored the values of his society.

All I wanted to do here was to use a well-known example to show how someone can spend all his life reenacting a severe childhood trauma (sexual abuse) in all kinds of situations and can even unconsciously lead several analysts of high repute to misuse him repeatedly for their own purposes. In his case history of the Wolf-Man, Freud reports:

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