“The first desire for each of us is the longing to be the phallus for the mother. Phallus here refers not to the literal penis but the object of the mother’s desire. The child wants to be everything for the… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Freud, again using his conclusions about men’s moral attitudes and functioning as a baseline, had decided that women lack a strong superego and hence… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Erikson (1950), for example, regarded male genitalia as orienting boys to external space and female genitalia as orienting girls to internal space. Boys” — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Winnicott’s understanding of the way experience can become traumatizing is quite different from Freud’s. Trauma for Winnicott is not just the introduction of something… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Loewald suggests that infantile, oedipal love detracts from and interferes with adult love when childhood experience is repressed, too strictly separated from adult experience.… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“people often act in a way that provokes precisely the reactions they are expecting. These” — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Many patients grew up feeling their perceptions of their parents were forbidden and dangerous. They have learned to discount their own often discerning observations… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The child is not traumatized by a sexual event, per se; the child is traumatized by parental character pathology. Because” — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Freud believed that because the core of psychopathology was the repression of conflictual, infantile impulses, which sought disguised gratification from the analyst in many… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“developmental theorists envision a mind rent by vertical splits between different self-states that have not been integrated with one another.” — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Reclaimed, unrepressed infantile experience enriches rather than detracts from adult experience. The” — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Natanijel Brendan nas upoznaje s pričom o dr. Odri Ričards, antropologu koja je tridesetih godina XX veka radila s plemenom Bemba iz Severne Rodezije.… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Janine Chassequet-Smirgel (1988) and other French Freudians, for example, argue that Freud’s phallocentrism was not just wrong, but a motivated error, defending against a… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
