Max
I would recommend to all children (so to everyone) and especially also parents!
Such a nice analysis of the relationship between our upbringing and the way we act out later as adults. Especially also how authoritarian pedagogy (and ALL pedagogy in general) lay the groundwork for totalitarianism, fascism, drug abuse and sexual abuse. I love seeing these connections between politics and psychology, something that was missing in psycho books i read up to now, and something that is still highly relevant today.
TThe Book itself starts very very heavy with some accounts of "pedagogy" from the last ~200 years in germany, which are actually incredibly gruesome. So its a bit hard to get through at first. The book really i ly starts after awhile, Miller doing less citations and giving more of her own theory. Then it transforms to the account of 3 personal lives (drug addict, fascist, and child murderer) and its quite interesting. Although it feels at times a bit tryhard to implement all the psychoanalytical interpretations, for example with hitler i felt like the actual data was maybe a bit lacking, but yeah, still quite interesting.
Anyway great book, the world would be a much better place if everyone took it ti their heart! Looking geyond guilt and being able to see the tragedy in the childhoods of so many people, but at the same time not downplaying the abuses etc that emergr from that - we could need that
its like the 4 noble wisdoms in buddhism:
there is suffering (in neurose, trauma, drug abuse etc.)
The reason for this suffering is that our true self has learned to be (partially atleast) suppresed, via the pedagogy of our parents.
We can free ourselves from this suffering by freeing our "true self" from this suppression
The path to liberation is a grieving process in which we become aware of the things that have been done to us in our past, and in the way we are still acting these things out. We grieve (emotionally process and live through these memories and realizations), in order to liberate us from suppression/depression/acting out
Yeah well
I would recommend to all children (so to everyone) and especially also parents!
Such a nice analysis of the relationship between our upbringing and the way we act out later as adults. Especially also how authoritarian pedagogy (and ALL pedagogy in general) lay the groundwork for totalitarianism, fascism, drug abuse and sexual abuse. I love seeing these connections between politics and psychology, something that was missing in psycho books i read up to now, and something that is still highly relevant today.
TThe Book itself starts very very heavy with some accounts of "pedagogy" from the last ~200 years in germany, which are actually incredibly gruesome. So its a bit hard to get through at first. The book really i ly starts after awhile, Miller doing less citations and giving more of her own theory. Then it transforms to the account of 3 personal lives (drug addict, fascist, and child murderer) and its quite interesting. Although it feels at times a bit tryhard to implement all the psychoanalytical interpretations, for example with hitler i felt like the actual data was maybe a bit lacking, but yeah, still quite interesting.
Anyway great book, the world would be a much better place if everyone took it ti their heart! Looking geyond guilt and being able to see the tragedy in the childhoods of so many people, but at the same time not downplaying the abuses etc that emergr from that - we could need that
its like the 4 noble wisdoms in buddhism:
there is suffering (in neurose, trauma, drug abuse etc.)
The reason for this suffering is that our true self has learned to be (partially atleast) suppresed, via the pedagogy of our parents.
We can free ourselves from this suffering by freeing our "true self" from this suppression
The path to liberation is a grieving process in which we become aware of the things that have been done to us in our past, and in the way we are still acting these things out. We grieve (emotionally process and live through these memories and realizations), in order to liberate us from suppression/depression/acting out
Yeah well