Anna Abbiate Fubini
Childhood: times of mutability
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Rhythms and phases
engaged in fundamental experiences
according to rhythms and phases
unique to him/herself
Each of
us, however even good, prepared, cultured
parents, doctors and
teachers
can commit continual disastrous violence
on the helpless psyche of the
child,
believing for
his/her own good
in an immature, insensible way
or endorsing fashionable schools of thought.
Once deprived of real experience,
children elaborate empty fancies
and artificial compensations,
which either block or deform their growth.
Thus they are turned into
immature,
unformed or badly shaped adults
engraving a mark on generations to come.
But yet to enter the imperfectly known times of mutability
is
however
not
so difficult.
It is sufficient to be sympathetic,
to cooperate with respect,
to participate with curiosity and pleasure.
In short it is sufficient to take children's evolution in earnest
and at the same time reawaken one's own
evolution.
Life cycle and society: forward and backward
But human life and - therefore - human growth do not abstract from a very ample and differentiate surrounding: at the same time every human life is always subjected to environmental - ambient, milieu, sociology, politics - variations. But not only space, people, natural and cultural factors act in a fix time: the long and complicated human existence undergoes a complete variability furthermore in terms of TIME, as forward and as backward passages.
Childhood
and Society: by Erik
Homburger Erikson is depicted as a landmark work on the social
significance
of childhood. (Winner
of the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book
Award)
Identity
and the Life Cycle goes
deeply into
the relationship
of life history, relates to each other observations on groups studied
on field researches and on children observed longitudinally and
clinically, also beyond adolescence, into the critical stages of the
whole life cycle, to join then The Problem of Ego
Identity from biographical, clinical, and
social points
of view.
After beginning and wholeness, the conclusive
denouement is
also the subject of other books till
the rounding off The
Life Cycle Completed by Erik Homburger Erikson and his
wife Joan
Mowat
Erikson (Paperback - June 1998)
| A meaningful quotation about
childhood
from a famous Romantic English poet, William
Wordsworth: MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD  My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Written at Town-end, Grasmere: 1802.  ... to
a child from whom this grown-up
grew
TO LEON WERTH WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE BOY A'
Léon Werth
Quand il était petit garçon Original
dedication
of the legendary book:
Antoine de Saint Exupéry: Le petit prince |
Is
childhood a time when
the path
of one's life is influenced and perhaps the course sets a vital
time in
the life of ever? Putting the
Skinned
Knees Back Into Playtime.Articles for the Brussels Conference - October 2000 Edited by C. Clouder, S. Jenkinson and M. Large and published by Hawthorn Press:This lively collection of articles by Conference presenters offers stimulating insight for dialogue about how we can give due respect to children. Here are Cathy Nutbrown's 20 Questions for Childhoods in the 21st Century, a shortened UN Charter of Children's Rights and Childhood by the Alliance. There are useful references, contacts and resources for networking This lively collection of articles by Conference presenters offers stimulating insight for dialogue about how we can give due respect to children. There are useful references, contacts and resources for networking.
Look also at UNICEF's Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Since
the further back in history one goes
the lower the level of childrearing, it follows that children in the
past grew up in houses of horrors that were like those of dissociated
personalities of today. Psychiatric studies have shown that there is a direct
correlation
between elevated levels of dissociative symptoms — separate alters,
depersonalization, derealization — and the amount of early physical,
sexual and emotional abuse.
That the average person before the modern period walked streets full of
spirits, demons, gods and other alters is evidence of the dissociation
that resulted from their routine abuse and neglect as children.
Historical evolution of the psyche, therefore, is the slow, uneven
process of integrating fragmented selves into the unified self that is
the goal of modern upbringing.2
El sueño de la razon produce monstruos...
Growing
child engaged in fundamental experiences
according to rhythms and phases all of his/her own...
A concept explained with these quotes written by an unhappy adopted child
according to rhythms and phases all of his/her own...
A concept explained with these quotes written by an unhappy adopted child
Better
alone than in bad
company……
Affection and understanding? Certainly not!!!! Fed up, senseless conversations, unsolicited advice, humiliation, wearisome situations and so much, so much NOTHING! NOTHING covered the walls of the house, emerged from their mouths under the form of unknown words, NOTHING lunched and dined with us and always at the same time. NOTHING existed in a caress never given, existed in their hearts and their mind. When there is “nothing” to give, when adults lack the experience of emotions and of living, then truly there in nothing to be done and nothing to say.
Affection and understanding? Certainly not!!!! Fed up, senseless conversations, unsolicited advice, humiliation, wearisome situations and so much, so much NOTHING! NOTHING covered the walls of the house, emerged from their mouths under the form of unknown words, NOTHING lunched and dined with us and always at the same time. NOTHING existed in a caress never given, existed in their hearts and their mind. When there is “nothing” to give, when adults lack the experience of emotions and of living, then truly there in nothing to be done and nothing to say.
How to take children's evolution in earnest? How can children be helped to follow their fundamental expansion in respect of their natural and personal established times and ways?
However evident is that growing, developing children are mighty marks of "running" times and then disconcerting "advices" of slipping away generations: then what should do a grown-up if immature, unformed or badly shaped? Tangled memory, faulty early ages result in further abandonment feeling: with such refusal of total reality of origins also oneself childhood should be disparaged if not rejected. What should people do when an unbearable pain condemns to worship a fake reassuring security, a self-centered security stiffened on a present that one would like to pass slowly in order to let savor the pleasure of living? On the aim not to feel such "terrible" emptiness and despair, why does not be preferable to hinder these "tokens of running times" if not really hate them?
Forward and backward? How can get a person grew from a denied childhood? Is it so strange at least to block them, wishing to portray and shelter static, everlasting babies? Is it so strange that if all grown-ups were once children -- although few of them remember it?
Notwithstanding there are - even if ever painful - ways to recover infancy's sense: for example discovering the true message endorsed on to feel "terribly afraid" for that child no longer with us, that child who won’t come back anymore and who in a certain sense slipped away, causing a pain so terrible to be alike a real mourning as for a death.
| At
my sister’s house this evening I saw some photos of my niece and nephew
when they were little. There was one of F. at four years old and it
made my stomach churn…. It
seemed
almost impossible that he has grown up so much and at the
same
time the baby he was isn’t here anymore: for my feeling the "baby" now
is "dead". I had a sensation of being blocked, something which makes me feel and that I worry I can’t bear. The pain for that child no longer with us, that child who won’t come back anymore and who in a certain sense slipped away from me. How I didn’t experience him enough, how many things I missed in him and terribly afraidmissed in myself. It’s a pain which brings a feeling of emptiness, a pain which opens an abyss – a kind of black hole in into which I fear I will fall. I cling so much to the present that it gives me security, a present that I would like to pass slowly in order to let me savour the pleasure of living, yet runs so fast and the more it runs the more I feel that I am moving towards that abyss of finding myself at the end of my life with only regrets. It’s a kind of grief, like that of losing the really passed away Aunt A., like that of when K. began to go out with P., it’s a kind of grief and an abandonment. You can’t imagine (or maybe you can) how difficult it is to make part of me understand that you can’t revive ghosts: that part of me doesn’t want to hear reason. It would like to see just one time the face of that child, embrace him again. It is obstinate and doesn’t want to accept things as they are. At this point it’s difficult for me to understand who I am, I’m really confused. But maybe it was time because I’ve been feeling empty for too long. I said to K. too this morning that I felt like a “had my balls cut off"(°) almost in the anatomical sense of the word. (°) On regard of this situation, is it more offensive the term "had my balls cut off"? or the deceiving, fake-protective words offering guarantees for a - fake - "security"? "Reassurance" as well as "protection"...: any way alike words recall something "against", recall "defence", evoke "safety measures"... |
This file/chapter completes the preliminary one Children of YESTERDAY = today's adults. Today's adults -> adults of TOMORROW: in both the below famed plate is accompanied by explanation pointing to the remarkable far-sighted animality of the lynx expressed in her attentive, perplexed, preoccupied glance and to the sly glimpse which transpires from the - deceptively friendly - eyes of the owls and of the malignant cat lying half-hidden behind the sleeper.)
El sueño de la razon produce monstruos.... is written in the Cervantes' Don Qijote and again by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes in his more famed table - 43- of the Caprichos 43 1797 (El Prado Madrid) Sueños y Discursos de verdades descubridoras de abusos, vicios y engaños en todos los oficos y estados del mundo: this quote comes from the full autographical title in this preparatory drawing.
The bending figure is surrounded by eight owls, numberless bats, a lynx and a camouflaged black cat symbolizing idleness and lust. Only the lynx at the feet of the artist stand for positiveness: Goya warns us to be on the look-out like the lynx, whose excellent sight sees through the darkness, for when asleep we cannot defend ourselves from vices symbolized by the surrounding animals. (See 119 Galleria Salamon Catalogue, p. 43)
Does the sleep of reason generate monsters?
Only in the silence of monsters can
the evolution of children and adults become real.
Genoma:
uniqueness
and environmentTogether with the absolutely, obliged uniform basis of every body's development, the humankind has an INNER, genetic very individual uniqueness: The scientists of TCAG a Canadian centre for human genome and diseases -research Aug 1 2004 - TCAG supports discovery of large-scale genome variation (Nature Genetics) and launches 'Genome Variation Database'. Large-scale variation in the human genome- Letter by John Iafrate et al. - Charles Lee and colleagues report thatlarge-scale copy number variations (LCVs) are common in the human population. This previously unappreciated heterogeneity may underlie some of the phenotypic variation seen among individuals.
In full analogy - not only as metaphor - with the embryogenesis' biological "organizers", each unfulfilled need (NEED not "wish"), each violation, perhaps each even apparently "small" trauma, which can perturb a crucial developmental phase.... can worsen up to the point of sweeping away the whole life in a vicious circle coiling in itself, even beyond the suffering person until many existences are overwhelmed: one's own and other peoples' life.
Any way not only the embryological development can be explored by scientific experiments, but also sophisticated implements can detect developmental changes, aka "to mature" not simply "to grow" - i.e.: qualitative and not quantitative transitions - on brain functioning through the ages from childhood to youth - the article holds huge references list.(Look at the embryogenesis' biological "organizers": In 1901, Curt Herbst wrote that he thought it possible "to establish the occurrence of formative stimuli which are exerted from one part of the embryo to another, and to demonstrate eventually the possibility of a complete resolution of the entire ontogenesis into a sequence of such inductions." This prediction of inductive cascades was a bold statement, given that no sequence of events had yet been observed (1, 2). But that was soon to change. That same year, HANS SPEMANN (3) published "one of the most significant and seminal papers in the history of embryology" (4), his experimental analysis of lens formation in the frog.... In 1924, while working on the relatively large eggs of amphibians he discovered, together with Hilde Mangold, the existence of an area in the embryo, the portions of which, upon transplantation into a different part of a second embryo, induced the secondary embryonic primordia. The name "organizer centre" or "organizer" was given to those parts by him. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935 for this discovery of the organizer effect in embryonic development.
A Selective History of Induction II. Spemann's induction experiments
The Spemann-Mangold organizer
VOLUME 45, NUMBER 1, SPECIAL ISSUE 2001 THE SPEMANN MANGOLD ORGANIZER 75 Years on Edited by E.M. De Robertis and J. Aréchaga
Pioneering
Stanford study shows how children's brain signaling differs from adults By ERIN DIGITALE
STANFORD, Calif. — The first-ever comparison of synchronization of brain signals in children and young adults helps explain why children are less adept at multitasking, emotion regulation and other behaviors that come with maturity, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
STANFORD, Calif. — The first-ever comparison of synchronization of brain signals in children and young adults helps explain why children are less adept at multitasking, emotion regulation and other behaviors that come with maturity, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Kaustubh Supekar1,2*, Mark Musen2, Vinod Menon3,4*
1 Graduate Program in Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 2 Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 3 Program in Neuroscience, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, 4 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
The ontogeny of large-scale functional organization of the human brain is not well understood. Here we use network analysis of intrinsic functional connectivity to characterize the organization of brain networks in 23 children (ages 7–9 y) and 22 young-adults (ages 19–22 y). Comparison of network properties, including path-length, clustering-coefficient, hierarchy, and regional connectivity, revealed that although children and young-adults' brains have similar “small-world” organization at the global level, they differ significantly in hierarchical organization and interregional connectivity. We found that subcortical areas were more strongly connected with primary sensory, association, and paralimbic areas in children, whereas young-adults showed stronger cortico-cortical connectivity between paralimbic, limbic, and association areas. Further, combined analysis of functional connectivity with wiring distance measures derived from white-matter fiber tracking revealed that the development of large-scale brain networks is characterized by weakening of short-range functional connectivity and strengthening of long-range functional connectivity. Importantly, our findings show that the dynamic process of over-connectivity followed by pruning, which rewires connectivity at the neuronal level, also operates at the systems level, helping to reconfigure and rebalance subcortical and paralimbic connectivity in the developing brain. Our study demonstrates the usefulness of network analysis of brain connectivity to elucidate key principles underlying functional brain maturation, paving the way for novel studies of disrupted brain connectivity in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism ...
Citation: Supekar K, Musen M, Menon V (2009) Development of Large-Scale Functional Brain Networks in Children. PLoS Biol 7(7): e1000157. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000157
Academic Editor: Karl J. Friston, University College London, United Kingdom
Received: February 9, 2009; Accepted: June 11, 2009; Published: July 21, 2009
Copyright: © 2009 Supekar et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
* E-mail: ksupekar@stanford.edu (KS); menon@stanford.edu (VM)
In spite of growing evidence from these studies for patterned brain development, the functional organization of the human brain in childhood is not well understood and it is also not clear how the above structural changes translate to differences in functional brain organization between children and adults. ... Demographic and cognitive profile data for the child and young-adult groups are shown in Table 1. The two groups were well-matched and did not differ in IQ (p = 0.93) or gender (p = 0.75). Author Contributions Top The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: KS VM. Performed the experiments: KS. Analyzed the data: KS VM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MM VM. Wrote the paper: KS VM.
As quoted on a Summary Chart presented on the file/chapter my guides... my roots... also another very important Author focused his attention on life's developmental stages: Jean Piaget whose studies tend to define how in all fields of life (organic, mental, social) exist ‘totalities’ qualitatively distinct from their parts and imposing on them an organization, and then on developmental stages. But his interests on Psychology preferred to choose not pathological field:
As
he delved deeper into the
thought-processes
of doing science, he became interested in the nature of
thought
itself,
especially in the development of thinking. Finding relatively
little
work done in the area, he had the opportunity to give it a label.
He called it genetic
epistemology,
meaning the study of the development
of knowledge.
Carl
Gustav Jung instead systematized
fundamental concepts on symbolizing basic energies: a very bright
idea was to simplify them in four key categories, called archetypes
.
But his well-constructed and fitting theories have a logical limit:
they
are ontological
description of personalities "as they are", they refer to individuals
in
their collective
being, no matter at what personal age nor at which
degree of
health
or ailment. His school therefore granted the possibility of therapeutic
work with also middle aged or even old people, but it is most fitting -
and not instead confusing - only to whose who are sufficiently able to
reach
an abstract way of thinking and willing to gain their whole
complete individuation.
The key word
preferred by Jung to explain the collective path towards
every individuation is transformation:
a word which though dynamic does not contain however the meaning of evolution.Not only grounding on patients' care, not only advancing
abstract theories: impossible is to equate those at least at any rate
ill-timed
descriptions or all-embracing abstractions with the compelling
basics brought up by SIGMUND
FREUD, who committed his discoveries putting
forward a
developmental pedestal as a solid foundation on which to establish
every further
research. No way to compare the unilaterality, and staticity of all
other schools
with the strong and wide
load-bearing
concrete,
stimulant science brought forth by him:
primarily on
postulating the "complexes"
as
necessary, successive
phases
of human development.
The first use of the term complex
in the psychological field came notwithstanding from Jung and his The
Association
Method for detecting unconscious problems when free words
association
stops or changes direction: unfortunately this - pejorative - meaning
has
been the most popularly used till now. Instead if precisely accepted
this word can't be easily changed since Freud's
complexes describe
real "journeys", real precisely
timed
occurrences, not only bare explanatory
concepts: "to
develop"
isn't only "to grow...", and then not only on a
clinical test,
not only as pejorative term, but such essential designation could have
used
this simple easy word - on its own ethimology: com-plexus - to better
ground crucial studies on human nature.
Freud proposed
descriptions established on fixed
deeds NOT
only static pathological data, NOT only abstractions, NOT mere
descriptive
metaphor: as school subjects the
existing
natural "complexes" can be performed with care or negligence, could be
well carried out or messed up at wrong or at least inappropriate times.
Like subjects of study, they are real powerful items
determining
growth
of potentialities, or instead mortifying personal whole
life by rejection: both cases also affecting groups they belong to. Any
way -
luckily as
happens for school rejected
classes - after all some willing "rebuffed" people can recover
better if with a redeeming
external aid.
According
to Hegel,
[that] the Absolute is
Spirit, and Spirit is
Reality.
All truth is within the Absolute. The Absolute has self-existence; i.e.
it has being-for-itself.
The Absolute results from a process of
becoming and developing itself...
And so, since
surely
everything "real is rational", every
real fact have to be the same at every time and everywhere: then a regular
alternate unfolding doesn't pertain only to Freud's
complexes,
even less does be a Freud's imagination. Even the very ancient authoritative
Chinese philosophy depicts these BASIC
PATHS, on their
interchanging
forward and backward from static and expanse Yin to
progressing Yang,
from interior personal situation to towards the
external world. First of all, life has to begin in the unabridged atmosphere of the oral complex, which can be briefly summed up in entries: "acquisitions", "holdings" and by a series of verbs, nouns and adjectives containing the concept of TOGETHERNESS expressed by typical prefixes - “con…”: as “concord”, “communication”, “complaisant”, "comprehensive"; “fusion”: like “diffusion”, “suffused”, “effusions”; “syn…” like “synergy”, “sympathy”, “syntony” and even by terms and ideas regarding something wide, indefinite all-embracing as "symbols".
The MOUTH is the centre propulsion of the complex, the mouth with its difficult characteristics, functions and developments, bestowed as it is with complex organs, sensibility and instinct: to it has been devolved the main function of feeding but also the certainly not secondary task of transmitting intelligible signals. But the term INFANCY with all its derivatives indicates a “defective” characteristic: in fact indicates the very characteristic of the as yet unattained capacity to transform into transmissible and intelligible words the internal language on common senses and communications, or better: the as yet unattained competence to GIVE A NAME to things in order to be able to dispose of them in a synthetic and abstract way.
Living bodies have however so many languages, moreover "cubs" should be provided by peculiar
call releasing stimuli: all this in fact considerably more numerous and powerful even than those Hundred languages of the poetry of Malaguzzi. Here below a sympathetic paradigm of these concepts is offered by this “strange couple” of rhinoceros, a mother and baby couple which succeeds only through genuine facial expressions in manifesting intense emotions and spreading them everywhere: from Zoo of Cincinatti one can worldwide via Internet be involved in this pleasant and unusual example of what should be a TRUE oral complex and how the circularity can take place – certainly not the symbiosis(!!) nor even the identification(!) nor a complimentary relationship – in a shared worldwide oral relationship daughter- mother in its continuous evolution.
IF YOU thought that breast milk must taste rather bland, think again. Human milk provides a veritable cornucopia of different flavour combinations that may prime a child to try new foods later on. ... "Human milk is clearly a substance which varies considerably in flavour over time and between different people," says Gary Beauchamp of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has also studied how flavours pass into breast milk. The findings could have practical implications for mothers worried about why their infant is refusing to feed, says Gill Rapley, a UK nurse with more than 20 years' experience specialising in postnatal care. "Mothers often talk about whether something in their milk may have upset their baby, but within 8 hours most flavours will be gone." Preliminary results from Hausner also suggest that breastfed infants might be more receptive to new flavours than bottle-fed ones. "It's not like if the mother eats apple pie the baby thinks 'mmmm, apple pie', but it may make them more accepting of the flavour of other foods," she says. "Breastfeeding may prepare the infant for flavour changes and new experiences when they start to eat solid foods."
Linda Geddes
The personal subjectivity by its internal "compliance" can express itself on the powerful reality of I like it: for ever and for a lot of situations the better imprint to a good-companionship life-style, the main stimulus to improve agreeable and friendly behavior. Nevertheless just if sane and accepted, this I like it whereupon should quit to let a new entry: I take it comes and goes on, followed by another powerful reality: the it is ENOUGH one, the wholeness of satisfaction giving and input to other, more ample aims.
At
this turning point the Eden garden
stops. In a life lived at its full,
this INITIAL
basic
complex - relating to communication, belonging, Nature, “diffused”
vitality
etc. with all this "completeness" - has to give up, for being followed
in time by its almost opposite anal
complex: centered on distinguishing,
sectorialising, defining,
MAKING, i.e. also "artificiality", dividing and specifying,
CHOOSING
- therefore also meaning DENYING and rejecting. It develops its
intrinsic
potentialities in terms of precision and
of temporal
and spatial PROGRESSION: concepts to be summarized by
words
beginning
with
the prefix "pro" and "pre" - “produce”, “prosecute”, “preside”,
“presence”,
"provide" etc. The
normal, effectual
trend of "anal complex" is to handle
-
also really exploiting hands
- onto
every "outside" and "after",
onto every
matter concerning specifically "outputs" including also every TO DO.
So
its sublimations
open
towards "facts", actions, duties, every "outer"
even figurative and abstract. Thus, since money, work and every other
subject regarding "to do", "to earn" and "to preserve", and so on are
essential
parts of the sublimated "anal complex", this trend has also to regard equality:
things and words, "things" and money, persons and functions. All
this REGARDS every
LIVING
BEING and not only every human person: the anal complex as well as the
oral one are real
factual occurrences at the core of inner
body/external world interaction; as the material
inner
body's
openings are parts of a whole living TO BE
and
then:
to personal health or
even lack
of
health.In the Italian language - more directly derived from Latin - an old-fashioned word exists to indicate by an unique faculty the change from babies to grown children: the by now speaking: "fanciulli", as the mainstream contrary of the previuosly unable "infants". However if for human beings the first complex is “wordless” (from the Latin in-fans, therefore generic and in-fandum), the next is very punctilious and talkative and so - as ever for “active” centrifugal complexes directed outwards - names, things, syntheses, abstractions, relations are cardinal points: just about to better utter this fact the paragraphs dedicated to the anal complex are very eloquent, whilst the verbal explanations of the oral complex are expressed in a very concise form: in fact better illustrated by pictures for example by the already quoted unusual visual explanations of animal life.
The oral complex hints to wholeness, till the risk of
indistinctness
ignoring parameters of space and moreover of TIME. But an oral
complex well "upgraded" MUST BE the founding ground of a
really
lived existence since a true physiology of the being
in action cannot disregard the multiple texture
of
present correlations
nor
the various past
modalities in which the essence of a real human being
should have concretized
itself. Emotions,
relationships, feelings, affection and subjective
experiences give consistency at every moment to actual
reality
of the whole
body
condition, but each of them cannot disavow their previous passages. The
word "complex" indicates just something
into which
many
various
elements
are harmonized together and so the anal complex with its
embodied
"making"
and "separating" contains also "aggressiveness": different from the
greedy non-destructive "aggressive-oral" one. For Latin
language, ad-gredi
means
to go "towards" and not only "against": instead the "anal" dynamism
with
its "denying" and "rejecting" hints not only towards how to
MANAGE; already by itself it implies not only disconnection, but also destruction.
This "to wipe out" conducts towards ends,
towards emptiness,
towards loss and solitude,
with
their correlated fear
and dismay.
(Look
at Freud's book Beyond
the pleasure principle the beginning of his theory
of death
instinct).
But all this doesn't be an only sad situation:
this mainstay developmental step gradually opens to every consciousness,
growing into a founding way to the myself
feeling and consequently of a true
awareness of
other's
reality and feelings, as well as ownership
allows to agree to other ones' belongings, whilst it expands also
towards the we,
the "to be member" of a
defined Society. No doubt how difficult its pathway
could go on, but how worse if deprived
of the
energetic
support of a well-lived warm oral complex. Such
occurence
freezes its activity, each element transforms
either into inhibition or in contraposition: performing in always limited
way, in most cases becomes merely contrary and
opposed.
Worst of all it tends to come back statically "aping" a parody of what
should have performed before: it does not proceed since spreads a
confuse atmosphere of a false,
malignant,
hidden and fake oral complex. Thus it replaces its generalized
benevolence
with strict borders between a pampered "we" and excluded "deceptive"
others;
it replaces the "oral" instinctive farsighted (as that of the alchemic,
symbolic
lynx in Goya's picture above) with exaggerated precautions;
counterfeits
the oral quiet "to hold" with a mean avarice... Substituting the
unconfined,
broad-minded oral complex invades pervasively the whole world,
borrowing
its con-
terms it takes for only merely aggressive, if not merely destructive
meanings
- competition, contraposition.... By establishing itself as
basic,
in order to avoid Nature and/or "diffusion" it can turn into
mere
confusion
when it scorns or ignores the preceding phase's contributions: but
flooding beyond any border it
intervenes
also OUTSIDE to stop each oral-complex aspect, despised as too
imprecise. Instead of guiding the harmonizing of
several
analogous
factors, it takes on a myopic and single-handed "reasonableness" as the
only perspective on life. Deprived of real roots of orality, it
turns
into a poor, narrow and narrowing copy of the rich and vital oral
complex: so it neglects to follow and drive on its profound, mighty
potentialities; its "we together" then becomes eager to violate the
other's well-being: acting as a persecutory to exclude every
"other-nesss" or to include
other people into strict cult-like worshipness.
The human anal complex
can after all reach a state of very valuable powers, unfortunately
regardless
if not well
developed:
using its powers whensoever deprived of real basics it performs
limited ways, in most cases becoming merely a bunch of contraries
and
oppositions,
of static, ill-timed ritualized orders, if not a needy striving for - abusive
- dependency
and/or abusive destructive overcoming.
Then what to say on regard of a narrowed thinking
which works in terms only of contradictions,
only of very strict either/or else, of ill-disposed disregarding
"aut-aut"? As for
a main example rational/irrational
where not only "rationality" does
not be considered to come
from Latin ratio
- which is only the name of the measurement ruler - but used instead as
a Jolly counterfeiting
more appropriate terms disdaining times and circumstances - as a
far-sighted "to provide" stiffed
on a "to supply" from "superiors to "inferiors". But the situation
worsen when its misled opposite - "irrational" - taints with its
contempt the simple "not yet conscious" and
moreover the bodily "emotional", showing the
total unawareness of the vital, lively widespread
emotional world, in sum
up promoting an active oblivion
of everyone INNER
basic to
be.
Only after well fulfilled previous complexes the innate,
latent third one can unfold its real happening to ripen its
possibilities and values. The Oedipus
complex well lived and overcome
gives
a better, more open view of a personalized, free, promising start
towards
all knowledge and possibility, of true humanity and true love. At about
the fourth year of life
normal
development
can (or unfortunately only "could") reach an extraordinary experience:
the child can know deep, tremendous feelings pertaining
to
the "adult world" and, if all is favorable, he/she can share these deep
but also really CONSCIOUS feelings with his/her significant adults. But
this
intense "love-affair" isn't only a static selfish episode: at the same
time the Oedipus-child can profoundly understand, by his/her intense
involvement who
people individually are, what their feelings are, and can
have a
deep,
albeit brief, feeling for the highest
sentiments
and the sources of
well-built creativity
(not to be confused with a longing for fanciful caprices
and/or unreal "goals" and/or
"fictions")
As
occurs not only in the main Chinese philosophy and religion, but also
in
human life everywhere, TWO CRUCIAL WAYS illustrate how every times and
modes alternate together: one way, as Yin, quiet, broad, filling,
resting...
and one, as Yang, emptying, moving, tightening and coming out. The
first
can offer the chance to enjoy or at least to feel, the second the
channel
to master, to control, to change...: oral complex and the Oedipus' are
of course aspects of Yin life, each followed by its symmetric Yang
opposite.
The value of a well performed anal complex could even improve the oral
one, and correspondingly, in order to complete the "genital", gifted
Oedipus' complex, comes forward
what
Freud summarized with a very skillful intuition as castration
complex.
Here it would take too long to explain all its capacities, functions
and
offers of possibility when it take place in the right manner and is
based
on sure roots. When unprepared, as also does the anal
complex, it can proceed but too more often
on the ruins and wreck of previous life, acting only as compensation,
behaving
in detrimental ways all the time beyond all ages, lasting unceasingly
for
one's whole life like a school subject never upgraded. Sociological problem
We can soon
realize that children
whom nature
was cruel to, are apt to
take on an approach to life and mankind different from that of those to
whom the joys of existence were lavished right from the beginning.
Freud's findings proceeded from his rich and cultured
patients and from
his personal history, on the contrary Adler's practice "never" saw
Oedipus
ripeness: so on any occasion he criticized strongly the
real existence
of the Oedipus'c omplex. His patients and neighbors were instead
acquainted with an
omnipresent occurrence of what he
called feelings of INFERIORITY,
often turning in the pathological inferiority complex
with
the effort to overcome by compensation
till superiority
complex. Thus not a real personal opposition
between
two serious researchers then a real sociologic problem: how can a
deprived people develop subtle
feelings? Don't get "short" disturbing people inferiority feelings as
"normal reactions" to the
awareness
of not being able to function in an obliged way, among already "grown"
also physically higher people? (One can read an exhaustive summary
on-line in Alfred
Adler and in his Collected
Works). Unfortunately
really how wide spread in the world are peoples who NEVER attain
personal
Oedipus' feelings!
How many peoples only experience feelings of deprivation and can't even
imagine a plentiful existence! How broadly
harming
the motivation becomes for striving towards a future compensation to
pass over a
childhood mislead as a burden instead of having faced how creative is
to share
from childhood significant sentiments, to have for a
while played - only plaid not suffered as incest - a lover's
representation within an adult ambiance! The inferiority
complex so much talked about is well illustrated in the quotes below: This
process begins in
infancy
as children become conscious of felt insufficiencies in the face of
normal,
everyday tasks, especially when they compare themselves to OLDER
children
and ADULTS. As a result, they experience what Adler called inferiority
feelings, which are the very normal reactions to the awareness of not
being
able to function in a way that we wish. Adler also described this as
experiencing
a MINUS situation. These
feelings become
motivation for
striving
toward what he called a PLUS
situation.
Individuals strive in this direction because of the "creative power of life", which expresses itself in the desire to develop, to strive, to achieve, and even to COMPENSATE for defeats in ONE direction by striving for success in ANOTHER. This power is teleological, it expresses itself in the striving after a goal, and, in this striving, every bodily and psychological movement is made to cooperate.
Individuals strive in this direction because of the "creative power of life", which expresses itself in the desire to develop, to strive, to achieve, and even to COMPENSATE for defeats in ONE direction by striving for success in ANOTHER. This power is teleological, it expresses itself in the striving after a goal, and, in this striving, every bodily and psychological movement is made to cooperate.
(Ansbacher and Ansbacher
1956, 92).
|
Once deprived of real experience, children
elaborate empty fancies and artificial compensations,
which either block or deform their growth.
Thus they are turned into
and that leaves a mark on generations to come. |
Influenced
by the
German
philosopher Hans
Vaihinger, Adler held that individuals were not always guided in
their
actions by reality. They were also guided by fictions, or
what
they
believe
to be true, though these beliefs are largely unconscious
(Vaihinger1925).
These ideas formed the basis of Adler's concept of the FINAL GOAL. The
final goal is a FICTIONAL creation of the individual - an imagined
ideal
situation of perfection, completion, or overcoming. Movement toward
the
final goal is motivated by a striving to overcome the feelings of
inferiority.
Although the final goal represents a subjective, fictional view of the
future, it is what guides the person in the present.... To make up for
what they did not receive as children, they may feel entitled to
special
consideration or compensation. They may want others to treat them well
but do not feel an obligation to respond in turn. REMARKABLY BOTH
PAMPERED
AND NEGLECTED OR ABUSED CHILDREN MAY HAVE SIMILAR EXPECTATIONS AS
ADULT.
The first group expects the familiar pampering to continue; the other
demands
pampering as compensation. Both may feel entitled to
everything and obligated to nothing.
(Development
of
Personality Henry
T. Stein, Ph.D Martha E. Edwards, Ph.D. Classical
Adlerian psychology)
Minderwertigkeitkomplex.
We can soon realize that children whom nature was cruel to, are apt to
take on an approach to life and mankind different from that of those to
whom the joys of existence were lavished right from the beginning.
How can get someone deprived of the SPECIFICITY and values proper to infantile development? How can feel forever “complete” someone, who has never known the absolute values TYPICAL of successive developments, leading ownself conscious existence to expand in the alternating of developing phases - from childhood to maturity and eventually old age? How can someone promote, cultivate and preserve curiosity, openness and a “participating” capacity, if he/she was already as a small baby - with all the derogatory burden smallness implies - considered just a burden, a mouth to feed, not a bud to unfold but an imperfect being hurriedly awaited to growup? How can he/she live through an interesting time, made of COMPLETE MOMENTS of being in a richly lived experience when he/she is spurred to hurry to join his/her - or worse: his/her parents' - compensatory final goal? How can someone not continually confront himself/herself with the ”more” and the “less"? Someone who instead of developing has only GROWN, who underwent NOT fruitful developing stages, but the painful waiting time when he/she was a small, weak, INCONVENIENT, malformed adult? How to care persons whose development was so needy that they haven't have a "true" childhood; people who were only allowed to spend time on growing up - not on DEVELOPING - during a sickly, lonely, frail, "small" infancy; people who were for many years not only CHILDREN but awkward, short and weak persons... How could these short and weak fake-adults not feel themselves inferior? how could this deprivation not make them aware of being badly "different" and cause an angry longing to soon join what one believes to be "normal"? How could a lack of oneself's trust not be presumed as "spoiled" and so authorizing to try to overcome the considered well-off, hated and envied "spoilers"? How can Freud's patients compare their "Oedipus' mishaps" with the "inferiority's complex" of the discarded ones?
Although
the
final goal
represents a subjective, fictional view of the future, it is what
guides
the person in the present.... To make up for what they did not receive
as children, they may feel entitled to special consideration or
compensation.
They may want others to treat them well but do not feel an obligation
to
respond in turn. REMARKABLY: BOTH
PAMPERED AND
NEGLECTED OR ABUSED
CHILDREN
MAY HAVE SIMILAR EXPECTATIONS AS ADULT.
In this page one can reach a
fundamental
matter NOT only of Individual
psychology
- even if Adler called his
studies Individual
Psychology - but of an enormous SOCIOLOGICAL
problem,
overflowing
and damaging everywhere on the Western "first" World. This page's
contents
are NOT only academic argumentats on theoretic Sociologic study: with
preoccupation
they also spur to bring to mind and try to watch protect from and, if
possible,
mend, a severe wide-spread DANGER; they are a loud WARNING against a
very
harmful mode of being of extreme sociological relevance owing
to
its
WIDE DIFFUSION: in summmary an urgent cry
to
PROTECT the new
generation,
at least to help to allow as many as possible of today's children to
develop,
to allow them to hoard up the treasure of their true childhood.The
child has a hundred languages
go to also at a Spanish musical version: Los 100 lenguajes del niño
go to also at a Spanish musical version: Los 100 lenguajes del niño
The child is made of one hundred. The child has a hundred languages a hundred hands a hundred thoughts a hundred ways of thinking of playing, of speaking. A hundred always a hundred ways of listening of marveling of loving a hundred joys for singing and understanding a hundred worlds to discover a hundred worlds to invent a hundred worlds to dream.The
school and the culture
separate
the head from the body |
They tell the child: to think without hands to do without head to listen and not to speak to understand without joy to love and to marvel only at Easter and at Christmas. They tell the child: to discover the world already there and of the hundred they steal ninety-nine. They tell the child: that work and play reality and fantasy science and imagination sky and earth reason and dream are things that do not belong together. And thus they tell the child that the hundred is not there. The child says: No way. The hundred is there... (translated by Lella Gandini)
|
Oral complex with its gifts of communication, languages, friendship..., anal complex with its gifts of possibilities to know, to master, to try, to learn, to read and write..., Oedipus complex with its gifts of curiosity, interest, joyful awareness... Or instead as explains Adler: Adler the physician and Adler the rickety child who knew first hand the bleakness of suburbia rendered more squalid than ever by the terrible 1918 post-war time:
BOTH
PAMPERED AND
NEGLECTED OR ABUSED
CHILDREN
MAY HAVE SIMILAR EXPECTATIONS AS ADULTS
In fact - ...
we
steal ninety nine - it would be totally misleading to
think
that only economic POVERTY and lack of CULTURE
deprive a
large majority
of children of a true childhood and of the exalting, truly maturing
experience
of the Oedipus
complex denied by Adler. All small and
noisy
creatures: all “not-children”, but IMPERFECT ADULTS,
all
these “little ones” do not be opposed to wiser “adults” (ripeness is
all) but to bigger threatening already grown. Every
so felt to
be only small
and
noisy
creatures do not know and
cannot
even imagine what is the peace and the strong power springing from oral
complex, nor the sharp widening of the mind and
sensibility, the
self
assurance gained during the Oedipus complex, well founded also on the
second more personalized support of "anal one".Alike historically it is moreover NOT true that the ways of children rearing are improving, that civilization times and behaviors are getting better and better...; it is worse faulty to think that only distress due to need and poverty, ignorance and stupidity could destroy the wealth of childhood
An extremely persuasive description to extend the concepts of complexes on the direction to existential openings proper to each phase in human development and of realizations to their sociological consequences are properly presented on a basic book (Italian not translated): Né leggere, né scrivere (Neither reading nor writing) where the very spirit of the anal and oral complex shows very clearly:
a scandal book which forces life-enjoying Italy to mirror itself in the first anthropological inquiry on illiteracy. A scandal and a Cassandra book, Né leggere, né scrivere is a work that looks out into the future. (from the blurb, Callari Galli Matilde, Harrison Gualtiero, Né leggere, né scrivere, Meltemi1997 ISBN 8886479263).
As shared above as presentation of Né leggere, né scrivere, we must neither think that a greater communal affluence - rather pseudo-affluence is certain to bring about changes for the best, nor that we live in a historical phase of sure progress. We are still surrounded by a large majority of incomplete adults and bad parents (perhaps even in crescendo with a continuous increase in damages). What to think on regard of the Authors mocked on the Etiology & Treatment of Childhood surely wealthy scholars and then neither illiterate nor poor. It is not so true that just a precise evil will and purposes are wherever acting to damage the normal children's development and rearing: not so total but furthermore a powerful "gang" exists trying to overcome the most worldwide people, beginning to damage infants. It is not a total world order but a "gang" bad crowded by more evil scholars and VIPs even plans conscious wicked purposes: at first to make children and young people their primary target. If the scholars mocked on the Etiology & Treatment of Childhood are not illiterate, it is absolutely imperative to point out that even worse ways exist to consider children and their rearing: not illiterate but powerful and very rich scholars and politicians can teach, train, master disciples and whole peoples; can silence the children's hundred languages, for them very unwelcome; can subdue and pull towards their way of thinking a lot of authors, doctors, parents, teachers... Thus it is commonplace to find powerful authors fighting to switch off with drugs the attention deficit and hyperactivity syndrome of suffering, perhaps abused, children; or to find professionals willing to give to everyone - obviously also to parents - an artificial silence of unawareness... Everywhere it is commonplace to be surrounded by convincing professionals able to frighten, to intimidate, to disconcert and tame and to make followers of a lot of ill-believers no matter how cultivate and literate: authors, doctors, teachers, parents... And this is not yet the worse: there are even leaders who strive towards very devilish aims, presented not only as academic reasoning as in A psychocivilized society and in many other books and teachings, but also actually made operative in facts,
However – even if the subjects in question here appear to have “childish” themes – it is exactly these “childish and familial themes” which describe a precisely drawn establishment of the start of the basics of every concept of a QUADRIDIMENSIONAL ESSENCE OF BEING. In such a four-dimensional scenario ideas become crystallised through the process of TIME thus take also on the form of a “future direction” summarising concepts which indirectly express a fundamental and so POLITICAL conditioning. But political with a forecasting of “future direction” also means POLEMIC : it is not for nothing that this site is increasingly targeted and damaged.
A particularly burning issue in this sense is the Oedipal complex, a NON OBLIGATORY step in the series of psycho – corporeal DEVELOPMENT, not biologically “obligatory” but fundamental as a beginning to a superior socio-evolutionary passage, to a superior form of CIVILITY. The admittance on it, the living of it fully and the getting over of it leads to the recognising in their true essence both ONESELF and the real possibility of LIBERTY that individuality – and therefore the RIGHTS – of every “other” otherwise valid ONE: thus liberating each one from a primitive familism, from a restricted vision of indefinate symbols, from a world based on QUANTATIVE incompleteness and difference: devoid of individuality complete and completable, open to knowing and understanding and creative evolution(s): by now forward far off from a world vision formed of undifferentiated symbols, static, limitating roles. Freud was subjected to several spiteful and disparaging criticisms for his description of Oedipal and more of post-Oedipal developments. But this is unfortunately a real destiny for many individuals and peoples: in reality personal and environmental unfavourable situations turn the “values” of previous founding stages into false and grotesque forms. In fact how many impoverished lives do not reach Oedipal moments and emotions! How many are peoples whose childhood have been full only of sense of desertion, privation, non-recognition, lack of acceptance converted on envy and inferiority! How many individuals and groups can’t even imagine the existence of another universe: warm, full of affections and communication, ready to sturdy and responsible concrete action! And so, from their early infancy, suffered wants accompanied by a more or less conscious grudge can turn into ever increasing harmfulness and deliberate wickedness instead of learning skill and raising sensibilities and participation! How much turns into furious attempts and rancorous efforts towards future compensations! How much affection degenerates into coercive possession! How much envy and misrecognition can protract for generations and generations the idea of childhood as a mere troublesome burden!
Hopes
and
reference
.....when
they compare
themselves to
OLDER
children and ADULTS...
Perhaps not directly accomplices of the above quoted real evil-doers,
but how inadequate are the so-calling "studies" and
derived "theories" when focusing only on a poor bit of the enormous
Ocean of human emotional Universe! Cognitivists and behaviorists as not
skilled horse-breakers listen to and work stimulating guilt,
shame and other dependency relates
feelings: not considering the real all-embracing emotional fields near
to the
biggest
instinctual ones. Where to place for instance situations and choices
spontaneously challenging terrible dangers and related conscious
terror, "heroic" no-priced, no-praised behaviors even shared by
"animals", when a self-innate hint can tame and block the outburst of a
furious anger?The aim to better fix up the consequential and entire "texture" of human growth hinted many considerations also from reworking an impromptu open letter – without an answer ! – in opposition to another book with a too much analogous title Tempo di mutamenti (Times of mutability): not to prosecute "plagiarism" but, what is worse, to defy a book seemingly similar instead in sharp contrast for the incongruity of the content with basic facts expressed and not only theoretical opinions supported. At a superficial glance the plan of this work contests the tendency to dependency: but this assumption comes from totally confusing this - pathologic - condition with the whole realm of emotional life, spread on the whole wording on praising everywhere the desire to a self-assurance rooted on a frigid, obstinate and immobile "rationality" and "instruction". A typical quote is sufficient for summarizing its whole belief - irrational has to be rooted out - considering a goal to be obtained "to extract" truly living emotions, mighty trust on vital instincts as were decayed teeth. What to think since on the contrary this dispossession is one of the principal cause of the profound eziopathogenetic roots of all personal mental and general sociological pathologies.
Moreover especially reworking this quarrel, some only Italian files/chapters are more widely summarizing this basics: it would be suitable to read also the pages more precisely integrating and confirming these essential proposals and founding concepts. But it is also suitable to look at another presentation, though quite different in text and form, coming and going from and towards different points of view and argument to complete what expressed in the present site and books, since they are indirectly part of a much more general appraisal managed by the same Author. Then here it would be opportune not only promote to read the Italian chapters, but also to refer to another site – and book It's Abuse NOT Science fiction / Gli Abusi mentali, fisici e tecnologici NON sono Fantascienza) - dell'Associazione Italiana, scientifica e giuridica contro gli abusi mentali, fisici e tecnologici
Moral emotions
represent a key
element of our human moral apparatus,
influencing the link between moral standards and moral behavior. This
chapter reviews current theory and research on moral emotions. We first
focus on a triad of negatively valenced “self-conscious”
emotions — shame, guilt, and embarrassment. As in previous decades,
much
research remains focused on shame and guilt. We review current thinking
on the distinction between shame and guilt, and the relative advantages
and disadvantages of these two moral emotions. Several new areas of
research are highlighted: research on the domain-specific phenomenon of
body shame, styles of coping with shame, psychobiological aspects of
shame, the link between childhood abuse and later proneness to shame,
and the phenomena of vicarious or “collective” experiences of shame and
guilt. In recent years, the concept of moral emotions has been expanded
to include several positive emotions — elevation, gratitude, and the
sometimes morally relevant experience of pride. Finally, we discuss
briefly a morally relevant emotional process — other-oriented
empathy.
And where and how
to considere
resilience?Annual
Review of Psychology Vol. 58:
345-372
(Volume publication date January 2007)
(doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070145)
First published online as a Review in Advance on September 5, 2006
(doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.56.091103.070145)
First published online as a Review in Advance on September 5, 2006
Moral
Emotions
and Moral Behavior June Price Tangney,
Jeff
Stuewig, and
Building
Your Resiliency:
Building your resiliency to stress is a way of dealing with stressful situations in such a way that it also helps you take the next step in your own growth as a person. Building your resiliency raises your tolerance so that as you grow, things that stressed you out in the past no longer have the same hold on you that they once did.
So, what exactly is resiliency?
n.1. The ability to recover rapidly from illness, change, or misfortune.
2. The ability of something to regain its shape after being bent, stretched or compressed
Already, you can probably see the connection of this concept with stress management. Life does the bending, stretching and compressing of us in our daily experiences, testing our resiliency. How well we weather the storm depends on how resilient we are.
Statements about resiliency:
Building your resiliency to stress is a way of dealing with stressful situations in such a way that it also helps you take the next step in your own growth as a person. Building your resiliency raises your tolerance so that as you grow, things that stressed you out in the past no longer have the same hold on you that they once did.
So, what exactly is resiliency?
n.1. The ability to recover rapidly from illness, change, or misfortune.
2. The ability of something to regain its shape after being bent, stretched or compressed
Already, you can probably see the connection of this concept with stress management. Life does the bending, stretching and compressing of us in our daily experiences, testing our resiliency. How well we weather the storm depends on how resilient we are.
Statements about resiliency:
International
Resilience Symposium. Stockholm, April 2008.
A major international Resilience
Symposium originally scheduled for
October 15-17, 2007 has been postponed until April 14-16 2008. Entitled
"Resilience, adaptation and transformation in turbulent times -
preparing for change in social-ecological systems", the symposium is a
collaborative effort by the Resilience Alliance, the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, and the International Council for Science. With
local organizers from the Beijer Institute, the Stockholm Environment
Institute, and the Center
for
Transdisciplinary Environmental Research.
Associated with the symposium will be a policy forum and multi-media
art exhibition.
But
for us - concerned adults
- and
for those who are - one hopes "wise" - people: what to do? What to
think?
By good luck, we must not forget the still
existing
possibilities, like the ones described by: Erik
Erikson, Maria
Montessori, Emmi
Pikler and several others. For instance such
possibilities
are
operative
in great organizations such as Montessori
group, and in localized, daring ones like the pre-school
of Correggio - that we hope still
present thanks to the great help given by North
America Reggio
Emilia Alliance and by Reggio Emilia
Approach
- or in the famous school of Summerhill
- which has now fortunately reopened. Happily
we can in fact even trust in some other well proposing Authors and
Organizations
- as explained in all the pages of this site - look at the Authors
there
quoted: Erik Erikson, Maria
Montessori, Emmi
Pikler..., Loris
Malaguzzi and his pre-school
of
Correggio, Summerhill
(go
also to plug-in) and Etre
et avoir (see the
pictures and the text below) and
many others, among which must be noted a no more active Italian Web
site b> Le
esperienze [the
experiences]
with a lot of good links and
data endorsed within.
The Clearinghouse
on Early
Education and Parenting (CEEP)
is part of the the Early
Childhood and Parenting (ECAP)
Collaborative
at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. CEEP provides
publications and information to the worldwide early childhood and
parenting communities.
The
child has a hundred languages (and a hundred, hundred, hundred more)
but we steal ninety nine
that work and play
reality and fantasy
science and imagination
sky and earth
reason and dream
are things
that do not belong together
a town
that credits children with potentialities and creativity,
recognizing
them as legal subjects, endowed of their own culture and autonomy,
establishes
the founding premises for a higher condition of citizenship in the
individual But yet to enter
imperfectly known times of mutability
is not so difficult.
It is sufficient to be sympathetic,
to cooperate with respect,
to participate with curiosity and pleasure.
In short it is sufficient to take
children's evolution in earnest
and at the same time
reawaken one's own evolution.
The children's images of this Italian edition are downloaded from the Emmi Pickler's book: illustrator Klàra Pap. (Keep an eye out for Videos produced by the Pikler-Loczy. Look at the up-dated The Pikler Institute's recent evolution of the Emmi Pikler Institute) (The prevailing
How
praiseworthy it is NOT to interfere in the babies'
freedom of
movement until their
birth!Emmi Pikler's concepts and programs were better explained in a recent German edition
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Better Together: this book with Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities from the Very Start by Magda Gerber
by Jessica Teich, Brandel France de Bravo
There's a Zen Buddhist saying, Haste is a form of violence... (29 customer reviews)
Better Together: this book with Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities from the Very Start by Magda Gerber
The freedom Neill
was
referring to was the
personal
freedom of the children in his charge.
SUMMERHILL is first and foremost a place where children can discover who they are and where their interests lie in the safety of a self-governing, democratic community.
SUMMERHILL is first and foremost a place where children can discover who they are and where their interests lie in the safety of a self-governing, democratic community.
In a so short and apparently simply outlined Animation film, the Author can perfectly show a very NORMAL TANTRUM of a very NORMAL little girl in its very NORMAL beginning, course and "happy end". A very agreable movie, also: educational and even enlightening.
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4 Minuten Animationsfilm
Niederlande 1997 Regie Christa
Moesker -
Produktion
Niederlandisches Institute für
Animationfilm,
Tilburg)
Rhinos and motherhood
Oral complex... its sudden emotions and sudden appeasements... "Oral complex" and its common basis of fundamental feelings and way to spread sympathetic emotions... But not only human beings are "individuals" and not only human people can experience emotions and communicate to each other in understandable languages: spontaneous, moving "facial expressions" can be spread worldwide by... a baby rhinoceros, the new born daughter of Emi, the female rhino of the Cincinnati Zoo.Monthly
24-hour behavioral observation reveals that Suci is now nursing
every two and a half hours. Although still nursing, Suci’s diet
also includes
over 10 species of ficus, orchard grass, alfalfa, sweet potatoes,
apples and
bananas.
The
Cincinnati Zoo will celebrate Suci’s historic birth both Saturday, July
30 and Sunday, July 31 with a special
birthday cake only a rhino could love. Each day at 10 a.m. and 1
p.m., Suci and Emi will feast on a two-layered
rhino cake that includes two bread bowls stuffed with apples and sweet
potatoes, mashed banana frosting, ficus leaves and a carrot birthday
candle. Visitors can also sign Suci’s giant birthday card.
What was that? the calf is born. it's a girl. it changed as i sent the message. i don't know what happened to the announcement. i hope you enjoy "my" Emi and daughter. it's about 8 more hours until they will let them be on camera. if so, i think the little one was howling for breakfast. she got her wish. her mom got right up from her sleep. Today that the mother rhinoceros was... either sick or dead, and I was concerned as well. our baby and mother were sleeping but baby got suddenly to her feet and began to howl. mother Emi slept on and on... baby nudged and howled and sought everywhere for a place to nurse, but her mother was completely unresponsive. baby started to pull on Emi's ear and even that did not rouse the sleeping mountain of a mother... I wish you could have seen the face of the baby. I could swear that i saw registered there, a look of total dismay...fear, hopelessness, perplexity. Just walking and sitting and exhibiting apparent emotion. In another two or three minutes Emi got to her feet and allowed her little one to nurse. yet another 3 or 4 minutes, and the baby fell asleep on the floor. Next time we looked they were sleeping in their new position... side by side... head to head looking quite alike.
Projections? I was becoming frightened. Mom was but then rationalized that Emi knew that the baby had just been fed and was only seeking companionship.A poem: the Rhino and Kathje
nobody hears me.
oh, no! i'll die unless
she awakens and turns
and feeds me oh my!mountain mama.
great great mountain
falling springs fountains
please wake up.
i am here. it hurts.
my face rumples
and ugliness comes down
from the dry dry mountain
and stains my face.no sleep. hurts!
no food for me
i am invisible. she has
forgotten me.
lost. i am lost.
lay down
give up
stand up and howl.
i howl. no voice.
Andalas
(the original name of the Island of Sumatra) was born at the
Cincinnati Zoo in September 2001 to Emi and Ipuh - the only successful
captive Sumatran rhino breeding pair in the world. Emi and Ipuh were
both sent to the U.S. by the Indonesian government as part of a
Sumatran Rhino Trust agreement developed in the mid 1980s between
Indonesia and four U.S. zoos (Cincinnati, Bronx, LA and San Diego).
Andalas’ birth marked the first time a calf was bred and born in
captivity since since 1889 when a live birth was recorded at the
Calcutta Zoo in India. Andalas moved to the Los Angeles Zoo in 2004
when his mother, Emi, produced a second calf, Suci. Emi is pregnant
again and expecting
her third calf this Spring.
Zoo Celebrates World's First Successful Indian Rhino Artificial Insemination
The Cincinnati Zoo announces the world’s first successful artificial insemination (AI) procedure in an endangered rhino species. The pregnancy of the Zoo’s 15-year-old Indian rhino “Nikki,” is important not only for the captive population of Indian rhinos, but for the monumental scientific achievement it represents.
Emi and the Rhino Scientist Book Signing Saturday, October 20, 1-3 pm at the Zoo's Main Gift Shop
Emi and the Rhino Scientist is a new 64-page book for young people that tells the amazing story of how CREW director Terri Roth helped Emi become the world’s most famous Sumatran rhino mom. The book features more than 80 full-color photographs of Emi and her family as well as CREW and Cincinnati Zoo staff at work. Houghton Mifflin is publishing the book as part of their award-winning Scientists in the Field series. Emi and the Rhino Scientist will be in bookstores by mid-October and is already available for pre-order online at Amazon.com and.
Zoo Celebrates World's First Successful Indian Rhino Artificial Insemination
The Cincinnati Zoo announces the world’s first successful artificial insemination (AI) procedure in an endangered rhino species. The pregnancy of the Zoo’s 15-year-old Indian rhino “Nikki,” is important not only for the captive population of Indian rhinos, but for the monumental scientific achievement it represents.
Emi and the Rhino Scientist Book Signing Saturday, October 20, 1-3 pm at the Zoo's Main Gift Shop
Emi and the Rhino Scientist is a new 64-page book for young people that tells the amazing story of how CREW director Terri Roth helped Emi become the world’s most famous Sumatran rhino mom. The book features more than 80 full-color photographs of Emi and her family as well as CREW and Cincinnati Zoo staff at work. Houghton Mifflin is publishing the book as part of their award-winning Scientists in the Field series. Emi and the Rhino Scientist will be in bookstores by mid-October and is already available for pre-order online at Amazon.com and.
References
If
the
files/chapters Children
of YESTERDAY = today's adults. Today's
adults -> adults
of TOMORROW completed
by ... from
today's adults -> to adults of Tomorrow... should not
only be considered the presentation
and beginning of the
whole site/book, setting up the essential
meaning of the whole,
they are also followed and
consolidated
by the files/chapters evidencing the Author's personal knowledge by
showing - even in a not English file/chapter - preliminary
excerpts of
the
message and
the sources of her teaching
references. Moreover to
support them
has to be utterly keep in view the main purposes: to straight
emphasize the "fourth
dimension" of human
life, moving from childhood and
its obliged
passages of development to
their everlasting
presence into memory
- either
conscious and
meaningful or "removed": unconscious and often
damaging.
These concepts however are forcefully dynamic and then these topics must ever precisely and timely be enabled by continual basic adds and conceptual revision. Therefore it is not adequate to read them on a static book: the real relevance of such lively - not theoretic - subjects has to be reached and considered often confronting the Web site, moreover on its ever up-dated files Consciousness and memory, Anamnesis? A way for healing.... But the "fourth dimension" of the time has not to prevail on the other three ones of space and its properties: at any time they are to be compared together and secured on a wholeness. Just the far-reaching SUBLIMATIONS: VISUAL SCHEMES AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION file/chapter is done to complete the above quoted parts, but it intoduce also a more general learning: the interactions between corporeal occurrences and their inter-action - into and from - external world, which can be defined the background of the PSYCHOSOMATIC science.
These concepts however are forcefully dynamic and then these topics must ever precisely and timely be enabled by continual basic adds and conceptual revision. Therefore it is not adequate to read them on a static book: the real relevance of such lively - not theoretic - subjects has to be reached and considered often confronting the Web site, moreover on its ever up-dated files Consciousness and memory, Anamnesis? A way for healing.... But the "fourth dimension" of the time has not to prevail on the other three ones of space and its properties: at any time they are to be compared together and secured on a wholeness. Just the far-reaching SUBLIMATIONS: VISUAL SCHEMES AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION file/chapter is done to complete the above quoted parts, but it intoduce also a more general learning: the interactions between corporeal occurrences and their inter-action - into and from - external world, which can be defined the background of the PSYCHOSOMATIC science.
... from today's adults -> to adults of Tomorrow...
SUBLIMATIONS: VISUAL SCHEMES AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION
Anamnesis? A way for healing...
LINKS RELATED TO PSYCHOLOGY, HEALTH AND CHILDHOOD
Take an amused look at:
and an ironical one at:
Etiology & Treatment of Childhood
Sorry:
at present
the important:
and
From
the prehistoric family to the utopian one
and the basic only Italian:
Imbroglio
è il contrario di sviluppo (an Italian pun not easy
to be
translated:
[= To
"embroil /
mislead"
notes the contrary of to "develop" “Developed”?
the contrary of “involved”!
[Imbroglio, i.e. involvment is
the contrary of
development, but 'imbroglio' can
also
mean FRAUD]
but you can read in English:
TOTEM AND
TABOO
REVISITED: the awful and fertile rise of new SUPERSTITIONS
Ten Reasons to Respond to a Crying Child
Bambino viziato - Spoilt child
go back to English home
and to its LINKS
