ISBN: 1853811874
Godina izdanja: 1990
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alice Miller - The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness
Virago, 1990
180 str.
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Alice Miller has achieved worldwide recognition for her work on the causes and effects of child abuse; on violence towards children and its cost to society. For more than twenty years she taught and practised psychoanalysis; now she questions the validity of psychoanalytic theories and common psychiatric methods.

THE UNTOUCHED KEY is a powerful and provocative synthesis of Alice Miller`s ideas and experience. With her usual impeccable clarity, insight and logic she explores the clues- often overlooked in biography- connecting unnoticed childhood trauma to adult creativity and destructiveness. What did Picasso express in `Guernica`? Why did Buster Keaton never smile? Why did Nietzsche lose his mind for eleven years? Why did Hitler become a mass murderer? Her conclusions reveal the roots and consequences of our centuries-old existence on obeying repressive parental figures- including psychiatrists and psychotherapists- and challenge us to unlock the door to our true childhood history in order to regain our lost awareness and our full life.

I. Repressed childood experiences in art 1. Pablo Picasso : the earthquake in Málaga and the painter`s eye of a child 2. Käthe Kollwitz : a mother`s dead little angels and her daughter`s activist art 3. Buster Keaton : laugther at a child`s mistreatment and the art of self-control 4. Despot or artist? II. Friedrich Nietzsche : the struggle against the truth III. The no langer avoidable confrontation with facts 5. When Isaac Arises from the sacricial 6. The emperor`s new clothes


Nonfiction, Psychology, 1853811874