About this title: The text connects adult creativity with childhood traumas and attempts to undermine our acceptance of repressive parental figures by reliving our childhood history. This work aims to answer such questions as why Hitler became a mass murderer and why Buster Keaton never smiled.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780385267649ISBN:0385267649
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. clean and well bound, slanted spine, some underlining and notation in pencil. Text in English, German. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780385267649ISBN:0385267649
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very Good. Clean, tight, square. Browning text pages bright and unmarked. No highlighting/underlining. Text in English, German. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780385267649ISBN:0385267649
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Wear to edges of soft cover. along spine. Page tanning from age. Underlines to text in black i nk. Text in English, German. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780385267649ISBN:0385267649
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very light shelf wear and chipping to the wraps. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 180 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 2/1/1991
ISBN-13:9780385267649ISBN:0385267649
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday
Date Published: 1st printing U.S., 1990
Description: Very Good+/Very Good-hard cover. 12mo, boards, 180pp, illus. edgewear, rubbing, small tears, chips dust jacket. owner name front end page. some foot corners curled. Hannum, Hildegarde and Hunter trans. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Anchor Books, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780385267649ISBN:0385267649
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Text in German, English. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 192 p. Audience: General/trade. BRAND NEW; PRISTINE; MINT CONDITION! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Anchor
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780385267649ISBN:0385267649
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"A compelling review of historical figures whose childhood experiences and traumas are purported to have shaped them into who they were. The implications are both terrible and wonderful and Alice Miller makes a strong case as a lone voice at the time she wrote this. Her own story and biases are evident but are not made explicit, which results in a four star book receiving a three star review."
"The subtitle of this book is "Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness." The premise of this book is that a child can endure any kind of trauma if he or she has a witness, that is, a person who supports the child emotionally or sympathizes with the plight of the child even if that person cannot change events.
When children are traumatized by cruel child rearing practices, external events such as war, or outright abuse and they have no sympathizing witness, it creates evil and Alice Miller has written extensively on Adolf Hitler as her poster child of the effects of child abuse. In this book she discusses the trauma of several artists by examining their work and exploring their childhoods. She discusses repressed childhood experiences expressed in the art of Pablo Picasso, Kathe Kollwitz, Buster Keyton, Chiam Soutine and the work of Frederich Nietzche. She uncodes the story of childhood trauma no longer remembered in adulthood of these artists.
"All well-brought up children are afraid that their angry words might kill those they love". Alice Miller states in her discussion of Frederich Nietzche who lived with the contradiction between the morality preached to him and the actual behavior of the people who raised and taught him, clinging to idealization of these abusive people. His father, though affectionate, forbade certain feelings and severely punished his son for expressing them. His father died when he was four and left him in a household of females all trying to outdo each other in teaching him self-control and other Christian virtues. He grew up to hate all forms of weakness. Alice Miller gives text examples Nietzsche's attempts to find his way out of the mists of confusion moral principles and attain clarity."
"I have so much to say about this book that delves into the deeply personal... I'm finding it opens up a new view of the world. When people quote Nietzsche "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger", I guess they really haven't considered that these words and ideas expressed as result of the abuse he faced as a child were used to urge a people to march into the Nazi's war. Stronger? And still I, too, thirst with him as in his "Night Song". The other artists: Picasso, Kollwitz, Buster Keaton, Soutine... all abuse and trauma victims. (Poor little Buster. Those bastards.)"
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