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Is there life without mother? : psychoanalysis, biography, creativity / Leonard Shengold.
Van Pelt Library BF723.A33 S54 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shengold, Leonard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Renard, Jules, 1864-1910.
- Renard, Jules.
- Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.
- Trollope, Anthony.
- Parent and child.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Biography.
- Adult child abuse victims--Mental health.
- Adult child abuse victims.
- Child abuse in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 218 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hillsdale, NJ : Analytic Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- In this richly textured study of personal growth and creativity hemmed in by childhood disaster, Shengold compares the differing gifts and differing solutions of extraordinary talents as they seek to negotiate a universal longing to refind the mother without sliding back into neglect, abuse, and despair. In the foreground of his analysis are moving portraits of Jules Renard and Anthony Trollope and the densely packed traumatic legacy of their respective childhoods, the one limned in sustained psychological torture, the other framed by neglect and abandonment.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0881633364
- OCLC:
- 47089557
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