Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the ChildOriginally published in 1984, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware explodes Freud's notions of "infantile sexuality" and helps to bring to the world's attention the brutal reality of child abuse, changing forever our thoughts of "traditional" methods of child-rearing. Dr. Miller exposes the harsh truths behind children's "fantasies" by examining case histories, works of literature, dreams, and the lives of such people as Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Gustave Flaubert, and Samuel Beckett. Now with a new preface by Lloyd de Mause and a new introduction by the author, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware continues to bring an essential understanding to the confrontation and treatment of the devastating effects of child abuse. |
Contents
Why So Radical? | |
Early Childhood Reality and Psychoanalytic Practice | |
The Loneliness of the Explorer | |
Is There Such a Thing as Infantile Sexuality? | |
The Guilty Victim | |
The Story of the Wolfman | |
Nonsexual Taboos | |
The Father of Psychoanalysis | |
Facets of the False Self | |
Eighty Years of the Drive Theory | |
Psychoanalysis without Pedagogy | |
Why Does the Patient Need an Advocate in the Analyst? | |
The Castrating Woman or the Humiliated Little Girl? | |
Gisela and Anita | |
New Versions of the Young Childs Dependency | |
Why Is the Truth So Scandalous? | |
But the Truth Will | |
Fairy Tales | |
Dreams | |
Also by Alice Miller | |
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