Erica’s Reviews > Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority, 1780–1930 > Status Update

Hillis Miller: make readers fall in love with a statue: "writers must bring to life the characters they invent, by turning the marble abstraction of ideas, thoughts, and propositions into living bodies"

Bildung--a wholeness in interiority that will figure itself forth, from inside to outside.

19C sources of self Charles Taylor (1989), move from outside to inside self, identity constituted in memory. LIFE HAS TO BE LIVED AS STORY for Taylor

Romantic child--located individ in time and chronology by possession of their own personal past -a self was formed by laying down and accreting of bits and pieces of a personal history, and this detritus, these little portions of the past most rapidly assumed shape of child"

"childhood was a category of dependence, a term that defined certain relationships of powerlessness, submission, and bodily inferiority or weakness, before it became descriptive of chronological age"

interiority--interiorized subjectivity, a sense of self WITHIN, a quite richly detailed self; creation + extension of the self's emotional terrain rooted in history. history creates interiority

Freudian psych played a role in b/w 1900-1920 in summarizing and reformulating a great many 19C articulations of idea that individual's psychic identity was lost past or childhood