The Drama of the Gifted Child; Excerpt 4

All excerpts taken from the audio version of The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller, which can be found on YouTube

This excerpt begins at approximately 2:35:07;

As the child grows up, he cannot cease living his own truth, and expressing it somewhere, perhaps in complete secrecy. In this way a person can have adapted a completely to their own surroundings, and can have developed a FALSE SELF, but in his perversion, or his obsessional neurosis, he still allows a portion of his true self to survive - in torment.

And so the true self lives on, under the same conditions as the child once lived with his disgusted mother - whom in the meantime he has introjected.

In his perversions and obsessions, he constantly reinacts the same drama - A horrified mother is necessary before dry satisfaction is possible, orgasm for instance, with a fetish, can only be achieved in a climate of self-contempt.

Criticism can only be expressed, in seemingly absurd, unaccountable frightening obsessional absurdities.