The absent mother: splitting as a narcissistic attempt to find a solution

2019 ◽  
pp. 73-90
Author(s):  
Judy Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Absent Mother

Conclusion: the emergence of Tasso’s psychobiography

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Absent Mother ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The conclusion traces how the psychoanalytical approach utilised in late twentieth-century Freudian interpretations of Tasso’s life and work, by Margaret Ferguson and Giampiero Giamperi for example, had been pre-empted in English biographical accounts of the poet from the second half of the nineteenth century. J. A. Symonds and Leigh Hunt both focus on the same autobiographical poem, the unfinished Canzone al Metauro, as these later psycho-biographical readings to try to account for Tasso’s troubled relationships with his absent mother and particularly his father Bernardo. The conclusion argues that the absence of a clearly defined vocabulary for psychoanalytical discourse pre-Freud does not diminish the acuity of these earlier biographical observations on the poet.

An “Absent Mother”:

2020 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
CHARLOTTE J. RICH
Keyword(s):  
Absent Mother

The Presence of the Absent Mother in Wordsworth's "Prelude"

1988 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. W. Heffernan
Keyword(s):  
Absent Mother

Still There

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Hornby
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
The World ◽  
Absent Mother ◽  
And Control

This chapter argues that Woolf develops a theory of photography in her writing that describes how the world emerges within a photographic economy of light, separate from an observing subject. Photography does not reproduce the world; it develops a world through the action of light and independent of an observer. This emergent world, refusing economies of production and control, is suspended in time. The theory of photography embedded in Woolf’s writing draws on the earliest kinds of photographs—cameraless images—that formalize a conception of photography as “light-writing.” Severing the bonds between subjectivity and vision, photography adheres to a notion of objectivity that extirpates the human subject in favor of a vision of the world absent an experiencing self, a world written in terms of exposure, development, and emergence. In Woolf’s writing, the light encloses the world, stilling it, protecting it, and becoming a foil for the absent mother.

Absent Mother and the Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood

Neophilologus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 101 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-185
Author(s):  
Peter Arnds
Keyword(s):  
Little Red Riding Hood ◽  
Absent Mother

The alienation of affection toward parents and influential factors in Chinese left-behind children

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 114-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Q. Dai ◽  
G. Yang ◽  
C. Hu ◽  
L. Wang ◽  
K. Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Emotional Distance ◽  
Psychosocial Vulnerability ◽  
Absent Mother

AbstractObjectiveAlthough alienation toward parents is important for children (for current mental health status or later interpersonal relationships in adulthood), it is undervalued and even lacks a standardized tool of assessment. Moreover, the large number of left-behind children in China is a cause of public concern. However, their experienced alienation toward their parents remains unclear, which may be important for early detection or intervention for behavioral problems in this population. Hence, the current study aimed to develop an alienation inventory for children and then use it to investigate the experienced alienation toward parents in Chinese left-behind children.MethodsTwo studies were carried out. Study 1 was designed to develop a standard inventory of alienation toward parents (IAP). In study 2, 8361 children and adolescents (6704 of them were left-behind status) of the Chongqing area, aged between 8 and 19 years old, were recruited for investigation. All participants were surveyed with a standard sociodemographic questionnaire, children's cognitive style questionnaire, children's depression inventory, adolescent self-rating life events checklist, and newly built IAP in study 1.ResultsIn study 1, we developed a two-component (communication and emotional distance) and 18-item (9 items for maternal or paternal form, respectively) IAP questionnaire. In study 2, exploratory factor analysis indicated an expected two-factor structure of IAP, which was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. The Cronbach's alpha coefficients showed a good reliability (0.887 and 0.821 for maternal and paternal form, respectively). Children with absent mother experienced the highest alienation toward parents. Boys as well as children aged 8–10 years old experienced higher alienation toward parents. Poor communication with parents (sparse or no connection), level of left-behind condition (parents divorced, been far away from parents), and psychosocial vulnerability (stressful life events, negative cognitive style) were risk factors of alienation toward parents.ConclusionsThe current study develops a two-factor (communication and emotional distance) IAP, which offers a reliable tool to assess experienced alienation of affection toward parents in children aged between 8 and 19 years old. Our result is the first investigation of experienced alienation and potential influential factors in Chinese left-behind children. The findings that children with absent mother experience higher alienation toward parents, as well as three recognized risk factors for alienation of affection toward parents (poor communication with absent parents, worse left-behind condition, and psychosocial vulnerability), give valuable guidance for parents who intend to leave or who are already leaving as well as for government policymaking.

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