1st Edition
If You Can't Trust Your Mother, Whom Can You Trust? Soul Murder, Psychoanalysis and Creativity
By Leonard Shengold
Copyright 2013
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
336 Pages
by
Routledge
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The main theme of this book concerns the continuing psychic centrality of parents for their children. Several chapters examine an author and his works, outlining that author's relationships with parents, good-and-bad, and making descriptive comments about these based both on information gleaned from the author's life and writings as well as from observations found in autobiographies, biographies... Read more
Epigraphs , Part One , Kaspar Hauser and soul murder , A note on soul murder , Dickens, Little Dorrit, and soul murder , Haunted by parents: Samuel Butler , Swinburne—a child who wanted to be beaten , Part Two , Jules Renard: soul murder in life and literature , Kipling, his early life and work—an attempt at soul murder , E. M. Forster , Elizabeth Bishop: the moth and the mother , King Lear and the multiple meanings of “nothing” , Clinical example of becoming able to transcend (but not eliminate) being haunted by parents , Child abuse and deprivation: soul murder 1
Biography
Leonard Shengold
