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Emotional Rescue: Shame and the Depressive Posture in George Eliot
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| by Joseph Adamson |
| Vulnerability to both shame and the longing for approval and love is the core of what Silvan Tomkins has called the “depressive posture,” one that is found frequently among certain types of highly creative personalities. As Tomkins describes the depressive’s relationship to the other, as first formed in the parent-child dyad, the parent shows great affection and love to the child but also alternately distances her with shame, anger, and contempt when she is perceived as offending or falling short, thus creating a strong corrective identification with the parent. Thus arises a magnified greed for both love and respect, in which the latter become fatefully tied to achievement. The quest for love and respect through communion, concern, control, and achievement underlies the major themes of George Eliot’s life and work. The dynamic nature of this depressive drama is particularly well illustrated in Eliot’s last great novel, Daniel Deronda. |
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| White/ Godiva, I unpeel’: destructive jouissance in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’ |
| by Paul Mitchell |
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| The Enigma of Desire: Salvador Dalí and the conquest of the irrational |
| by Zoltán Kőváry |
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| No people are cold!": On Young Children's Rejection of Metaphorization |
| by Burton Melnick |
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| ‘A Warning to the Curious’ : The ‘Nicely Managed’ Mind of M. R. James |
| by Maria Purves |
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| Cultural Androgyny and Gendered Authorship in Don’t Look Now |
| by Coral Houtman |
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| Chasing Perfection: Death Denial in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark" |
| by Shona M. Tritt & Michael Tritt |
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| Evil: A Psychoanalytic Meditation |
| by Erik Nakjavani |
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| From Ethereal Confrontation to Child Abuse to Womanly Conflict: Ophelia in Three Late-Twentieth Century Films |
| by Diane Hunter |
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| The Buried Life: Shadow and Anima in James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” and “The Jolly Corner” |
| by Sandra S. Hughes |
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PsyArt is an online, peer-reviewed journal featuring articles using a psychological approach to the arts. We provide a rapid publication decision and a large and international readership. The journal is open to any psychology and any art, although PsyArt specializes in psychoanalytic psychology and literature or film. |
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