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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child by Alice Miller
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Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child

by Alice Miller

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0374525439, Paperback)

Miller parts company with Freud on the origins of children's fantasies in this progressive study of repressed memory. Forget the Oedipus complex. Miller reasons that when children suffer abuse, their feelings of pain and rage have nowhere to go in a society that esteems parental power over them as a natural right. Children have no choice but to internalize the anguish, creating a wellspring of fantasy material. This book offers a fresh take on how the unconscious retains memories of childhood and, without appropriate intervention, generates emotional ills and destructive behavior.

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