| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 318 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
COVER; CONTENTS; EPIGRAPHS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND EXPLANATIONS; PART ONE; CHAPTER ONE Kaspar Hauser and soul murder; CHAPTER TWO A note on soul murder; CHAPTER THREE Dickens, Little Dorrit, and soul murder; CHAPTER FOUR Haunted by parents: Samuel Butler; CHAPTER FIVE Swinburne-a child who wanted to be beaten; PART TWO; CHAPTER SIX Jules Renard: soul murder in life and literature; CHAPTER SEVEN Kipling, his early life and work-an attempt at soul murder; CHAPTER EIGHT E.M. Forster; CHAPTER NINE Elizabeth Bishop: the moth and the mother. |
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CHAPTER TEN King Lear and the multiple meanings of "nothing"CHAPTER ELEVEN Clinical example of becoming able to transcend (but not eliminate) being haunted by parents; CHAPTER TWELVE Child abuse and deprivation: soul murder; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX. |
| Summary |
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 and critical works. Since these studies in part concern stories of child abuse and deprivation, the book predominantly illustrates bad parenting that seems to have contributed to the child's psychopat. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Parent and child.
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Parent and child. |
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Families -- Research.
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Families -- Research. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shengold, Leonard. If You Can't Trust Your Mother, Whom Can You Trust? : Soul Murder, Psychoanalysis and Creativity. London : Karnac Books, ©2013 9781780491097 |
| ISBN |
9781782410690 (electronic book) |
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1782410694 (electronic book) |
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9781780491097 |
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