Each of these six psychoclasses co-exist in the modern world today.
"Psycho": mind "Genic": birth -
originating or developing in.
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| Mode | Parental Wish | Historical Manifestations |
|---|---|---|
| Infanticidal early | late |
Mother: "I wish you were dead, to relive my fear of being killed by my mother." | Child-sacrifice and infanticide, child as a breast-penis, intolerance of child's anger, hardening, ghosts and magic, child sale, child sodomy |
| Abandoning | Mother: "I must leave you, to escape the needs I project into you." | Longer swaddling, fosterage, outside wetnursing, monastery, nunnery and apprenticeship |
| Ambivalent | Mother: "You are bad from the erotic and aggressive projections put in you." | Enemas, early beating, shorter swaddling, mourning possible, child as erotic object precursor to empathy. |
| Intrusive | Mother: "You can have love when I have full control over you." | Early toilet training, repression of child's sexuality, end of swaddling and wetnursing, empathy now possible rise of pediatrics |
| Socializing | Mother and Father: "We will love you when you are reaching our goals." | Use of guilt, "mental discipline", humiliation, rise of compulsory schooling, delegation of parental unconscious wishes |
| Helping | Mother and Father: "We love you and will help you reach your goals." | Children's rights, de-schooling and free schooling, child therapy, birth without violence. |
Each of these
six psychoclasses co-exist in the modern world today.
by: Lloyd
deMause
The Institute for Psychohistory
140 Riverside Drive, NY NY 10024
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