The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

by Alice Miller
The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness

by Alice Miller

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Overview

As in her former books, Alice Miller again focusses on facts. She is as determined as ever to cut through the veil that, for thousands of years now, has been so meticulously woven to shroud the truth. And when she lifts that veil and brushes it aside, the results are astonishing, as is amply demonstrated by her analyses of the works of Nietzsche, Picasso, Kollwitz, Keaton and others. With the key shunned by so many for so long - childhood - she opens rusty looks and offers her readers a wealth of unexpected perspectives.What did Picasso express in "Guernica"? Why did Buster Keaton never smile? Why did Nietzsche heap so much opprobrium on women and religion, and lose his mind for eleven years? Why did Hitler and Stalin become tyrannical mass murderers? Alice Miller investigates these and other questions thoroughly in this book. She draws from her discoveries the conclusion that human beings are not "innately" destructive, that they are made that way by ignorance, abuse, and neglect, particularly if no sympathetic witness comes to their aid. She also shows why some mistreated children do not become criminals but instead bear witness as artists to the truth about their childhoods, even though in purely intuitive and unconscious ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307816924
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 05/09/2012
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Alice Miller (1923-2010) is the author of such classic works as The Drama of the Gifted Child, Prisoners of Childhood, The Body Never Lies, From Rage to Courage, and Free from Lies.
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