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Alice   Miller

“What is unconscious cannot be abolished by proclamation or prohibition. One can, however, develop sensitivity toward recognizing it and begin to experience it consciously, and thus eventually gain control over it. A mother cannot truly respect her child as long as she does not realize what deep shame she causes him with an ironic remark, intended only to cover her own uncertainty. Indeed, she cannot be aware of how deeply humiliated, despised, and devalued her child feels, if she herself has never consciously suffered these feelings, and if she tries to fend them off with irony.”

Alice Miller, The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller
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