Haunted by parents--a literary example of change meaning loss: Edna St. Vincent Millay.
The author uses the life and personal history of the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, as revealed through her diaries and letters and in biographies, to illustrate a particular type of psychoanalytic patient. Such patients are resistant to change, particularly when it involves letting go of the internalization of early parental figures. Although some of these patients fail to achieve successful analytic outcomes, Millay is an example of someone with similar circumstances who nevertheless made significant creative contributions.
Shengold
Leonard
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lsheng@worldnet.att.net
D000328:Adult; D001601:Bereavement; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011037:Poetry as Topic; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D013475:Superego