Adult Relationships in the Elementary Family

The 20thcentury has witnessed a plethora of war stories, but among them Salinger’s “For Esme with Love and Squalor,” a minor masterpiece as Paul Alexander calls it, stands out. It also falls among those typical Salingerian child-adult relationships that highlight the non-phony members of society with many things in common distinguishing them from the other so-called normal members of the society. In the current study, characters are studied from a psychological point of view and classified into two major groups by the researchers. The first group and the main focus of the study is the minority of society and the second group relates to the majority or commonality. The minority group includes Salinger’s heroes and protagonists who are later known as psychoneurotic. This first group feels affinity to the children who are far away from the hostility and harshness of adults’ world as, to Salinger, the concept of innocence means being away from the false standards and hypocrisy of the majority of the insensitive society. The researchers try to distinguish between these two groups from different psychological and psychoanalytic aspects. Despite the contrast between these two groups, there are some similarities in their sexual conceptions and psychological adjustment that clarify similarities in traits and responses in the form of adopting different mechanisms to adjust and remove tensions and alleviate anxiety employing the mechanisms Freud calls palliative remedies.

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The Prototype Hypothesis and the Origins of Attachment Working Models: Adult Relationships with Parents and Romantic Partners

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ◽

10.2307/1166180 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 60 (2/3) ◽

pp. 216 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Gretchen Owens ◽

Judith A. Crowell ◽

Helen Pan ◽

Dominique Treboux ◽

Elizabeth O'Connor ◽

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Keyword(s):

Romantic Partners ◽

Adult Relationships ◽

Working Models

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The Truth As We Know It

After Dinner Conversation ◽

10.5840/adc2021212110 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (12) ◽

pp. 5-18

Author(s):

Rebecca Dueben ◽

Keyword(s):

Childhood Trauma ◽

Short Story ◽

Adult Relationships ◽

Being Bullied

How should adults help children who are being bullied? How is childhood trauma adapted into adult relationships? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, Celia has been married six years to Jason, an ex-military man 20 years her senior. Celia’s child, Theo, is the result of Celia’s abusive father raping her as a teen. Theo is a short, overweight, awkward child who is teased at school. Jason continues to try to tease him and create experiences to “make a man out of him.” One day, when Jason and Theo go fishing, Theo is laughed at once too often and pushes Jason off the bridge, to his death. Now Celia is left to decide if she tells the truth about what happened, or tries to frame the death as a slip and fall accident.

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