The Drama of the Gifted Child (Das Drama des begabten Kindes, 1979) In her first book (also published under the titles Prisoners of Childhood and The Drama of Being a Child ), Miller defined and elaborated the personality manifestations of childhood trauma. Aspects of the picture book, the kind of irony Nodelman has in mind here is in fact synonymous to dramatic irony. Dramatic in the strict sense of the word.5 Contemporary picture books often feature an internal. Das Drama des begabten Kindes und die Suche nach dem wahren Sel- bst, appeared in 1979.

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Modmail reaches the entire Mod team, we will review and respond as soon as we reasonably can. Rules lawyering will not help your cause. RBN Network. RBN Allies. Alice Miller has some brilliant insights on narcissism in her first book, 'Drama Of The Gifted Child'. The title is a sort of mistranslation from the original German - it should be more like 'sensitive child' (funny story - when I tried to get my mother to read it, she flew into a rage and ridiculed me by shouting over and over, 'You think your gifted??You think you're gifted??'

- so the title itself can be a bit problematic haha). Anyway.the point is narcissism involves a reversal of mirroring. When a mother and infant gaze into each other's eyes, if the infant sees a positive reflection of itself, it will internalize it and set in place a positive self-image that no amount of hardship in life can ever reverse. But if the mother was never properly mirrored herself, then she will spend her life searching for that positive reflection in other people's eyes (narcissism) that she should have gotten from her own mother. When she has a child of her own, she finally has a captive mirror that has no choice but to feel unconditional love for her.

Adobe pdf installer free download. She uses the child as the mirror she never had, and the child is, in turn, deprived of mirroring and thus narcissism transmits itself to the next generation. It's a sort of vampiric inversion of the natural process of mirroring.

It only takes an origin to keep something running. So we're either cycle-breakers o cycle-perpetuators. What I like more about Alice Miller's book, though, is the part where she speculates about a continuum between narcissism and depression. IIRC, as a result of lacking part of one's own emotional life (due to learned repression at young age), she speculated that one can go two ways: either becoming a narcisssist, or a depressive person. The difference to me is understood as this: when we lose connection with what makes us human, individuals, which is our feelings, despair starts.

And with despair comes hate, violence, etc. Now, here's the difference: some people decide to hate others, while others decide to start hating themselves. It's destruction vs. Narcissists bash everything in order to feel superior; depessive people bash themselves because they feel inferior. Yet, they come from the same place. If one doesn't take into account all the psychoanalysis vocabulary she uses (even though she departed from psychoanalysis, she keeps using such language), it's a great book.

About the title, I wouldn't say that it's that torn with the translation, after all, being more sensitive is, in fact, kind of a gift. In spanish it was translated as dotado, which is gifted too. Yes, NC would be wonderful. Sadly my narc is depressed (had her own shitty childhood and life) and my sibling is already NC. I would love to go NC but the guilt would be bigger burden than the current VLC.

Yes, my N is still demanding stuff I do her way, including what I wear, eat and think. I trained her to demand less, by simply reducing contact when she increased demands.

Now she knows that any demand voiced will get her extended - longer than usual - periods of no calls & no emails. She is on a serious information diet - I practically only confirm that I am alive and than we talk about the weather.

That is enough for me, and she can tell her friends that we did talk - which I believe is what really matters to her. I have never tried antidepressants, I really am thinking on it for a few years now. But I am fearful - what if word gets out. What if I get addicted.

What if my doctor will just throw me the first table s/he gets some incentive to prescribe? I read here a lot, and I use what I find. I will keep it up, and thank you for your help. For what it's worth, my doctors have always been patient and thoughtful during the prescription process. When a medication didn't work, they switched it up quickly. I didn't get any feeling that they were just in it to make a quick buck.

But my experience proves nothing, right? I'm a sample size of one. If you're scared of getting on antidepressants, maybe you could start a thread here asking people about their experiences - good and bad.

We're all here to help each other, and I bet plenty of folks will be happy to share their stories.:). Protip: You can get angry, and feel angry and hate, without letting your narc know. The point isn't that much of vengeance, but recovering the ability to feel angry, robbed, frustrated.

That's something we learned to repress at young ages because we'd be blamed to if we acted that way. Everybody has the right to be angry, but growing up among narcissists you can't, because they'll shame you if you show your feelings that way, they'll make you feel bad, etc.

Then we grow up with all that fire inside, where it burns us. I also can't get angry at them, because my Nbrother will have a psychotic break if you tell him anything, and my parents are already wasted because of him. So I'm left alone with it. But there comes so much energy with letting it out, with realising you're in your right to feel robbed, angry, that you're in your right to tell others about how much frustration comes with the situation you've got at home, and things like that. We protect them when they're not even there, because we're afraid they'll come out of the bushes and blame us for breaking the silence, but that won't happen.

It's hard to say. The book could be worth a read, in your case. It's a short read, too. But if you believe your depression could come from there, well.

One way to put it is that the whole ideology behind narcissism behavior is that of inequality: there're persons with privileges (them) and others that must abide to their exigencies (us). But, when it's the other way around, it's us who believe we're unworthy of anything, and then must understand, cognitively speaking, that by doing that we're privating ourselves from such very basic needs. We're our worse enemies. We don't allow ourselves to feel, to live, etc, as if someone else had robbed us of those rights as humans. So we must recover that. In Alice Miller's theory, one must recover it's own 'true self', as in the person we've been living as (either a narcissistic or a depressive one; in the end, they're two ends of the same pole) isn't the person who we truly are.

At some time we adjusted for the sake of others (family, ideology, culture.), and by doing so we stopped acting as individuals and we started being just products of something. We're characters, the son, the friend, the spouse, the pupil, but we don't know who we are ourselves alone. We learned being one way, but in our case that way was out of fear, so we're somehow damaged. Then, in order to regain one's true self, one must reconnect with it's own deepest represed feelings, which may be of happiness or of hatred. One can't be happy if one's full of hate, and doesn't let all that hatred out.

In psychoanalysis theory (Alice Miller turned against the 'traditional' part of it that would always blame the child), and as it was popularised by The Sopranos, depression is seen as hate or wrath turned against oneself. Something must be destroyed, but since it can't be destroyed for whatever the reason (because it's our father, our boss, the whole world), we destroy ourselves. Think slaves, or animals put in cages and mistreated: they lose vitality, because they can't do anything, they can't fight.

So, theoretically, we're angry at something or someone (or everything!), but we don't let those feelings express themselves at all (we rationalise, etc), which results in those feelings reverting on ourselves. Some people I've known with these kind of everlasting depression do get better after activites that let those feelings express themselves, like say, an aggressive sport like boxing, or something like that. If one's always angry, one must deal with that or it will turn against himself. So, since we can't solve the equation with ourselves in it, we sacrifice ourselves.

What non-depressive people do ('normal' people), in fact, is be angry at people who they believe they should be angry to, to insult someone when they believe it's worth it, etc. We're experts at repression, in our case, that of things that make us feel good. Narcissists are experts at repressing others so they can be as miserable as them, and things like that. Yet all of this must be dealt, ideally, with the surveillance of therapy, because digging for old deep feelings can be a perilous thing. Also, all of this understanding that it's a depression that hasn't a reason behind it.

If one's depressed because of a reasonable reason, then it's not this. If our depression can be dealt with with a small dose of antidepressants, we can go on that way, maybe it's our brain that just needs it. But if we've tried medication and we don't find a clear motive behind our situation, then it could be something that lies very deep in our persona. Then it's when digging may be worth a try. It also must be said that this is all pure speculation.

Alice Miller found so many pacients with these patterns that he elaborated her theories. She said that after her book became popular in the 70s, so many people would come to her and tell her 'How do you know my life?' So even if it's speculation, sometimes there's truth behind it.

One never knows. Plus all the things that are written in this sub, of course.

Positive feedback all the time. Okay, I will get the book.

I am not sure where my depression comes from. I had a tough childhood, but as a culmination of that I took a college degree that I hated from the get go - and worked in the field 10+ years. I have the brains, but I am not very successful. Now, I am changing carriers - but it involves a lot of personal sacrifice - and I am not sure how I will cope. Will I be able to stick to it until my new carrier gets to the level where my old was - at least financially. Will I be successful? And even if yes, will I be happy?

Sadly from experience it is possible to be objectively successful, yet deeply unhappy. Thank you for taking the time for an answer.

Abstract This article intervenes in the debate about the pedagogical import of Heinrich Hoffmann’s Der Struwwelpeter. Should this book be regarded as a typical example of black pedagogy or as a form of subversive children’s literature? I argue in favour of the latter point of view, on the basis of a close reading of the interaction between words and pictures in this classic children’s book. Meanwhile, this article aims to further our theoretical insights into the narrative potential of images. Every picture tells a story, but how, exactly? I attempt to give an answer to this question through a detailed case study of Der Struwwelpeter.