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Her unconscious wish against the baby betraysitself in the failure to recognise the child. Thechild felt this negative emotion and reacted withterror. On the other hand there is also consciouslove and affection which impel themother to visit her and determine her reactionsto a certain degree.Purely Negative Reactions towardsthe BabyThe situation is much less involved wherethe mother only has the straight and undisturbedwish to get rid of her child. An exampleof this was Johnny whose mother deliveredhim to us at the age of three weeks. Wehad no vacancy at the time but accepted himsince it was evident that the mother wouldotherwise leave him on the next doorstep. Sheweaned him immediately and left the same dayagainst all urging to stay at least a few days.She visited a few times and then stopped. Thenext news came from an Adoption Society withwhom the mother had made arrangements alreadybefore his birth. In this case it seemedquite impossible todetect any conscious or unconsciousleanings in the mother towards thechild.172
SummaryObservations of this kind may be usefulin explaining some of the puzzling behaviourof mothers during the evacuation of their children.With the recognition of unconsciouswishes and their conflict with conscious attitudes''puzzling behaviour" usually can be explainedas an unsuccessful attempt to combinean expression of both sides in one action or tosatisfy the two attitudes, one after the other, intwo sets of actions.Under the conditions of normal and legitimatefamily life the only feelings towards thechild of which the mother is conscious arepositive feelings of pride of possession, loveand affection. It is true that every motheralso has emotions of another nature. The babyisalso a burden to her, sometimes a disturbancein the relationship to the father, sometimes feltas a threat to her own body, sometimes a disturbancein enjoying herself etc. But underfavorable conditions feelings of this kind areusually barred from consciousness. Whereverthey appear on the surface as impatience or exasperationwith the child, outside reasons arefound to explain their existence. In this waywe get an interplay in the mother between consciouspositive feeling and repressed negativefeelings towards the child. The unconsciousfeelings may remain dormant under the con-173
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WAR AND CHILDREN
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COPYRIGHT 194Jy»- ruALL RIGHTS RES
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The Foster Parents' Plan for War Ch
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of children has, therefore, little
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The Nurseries, further, give lodgin
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the significance of air raids. They
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The understanding of catastrophes,
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confused in her mind with the more
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gether in a play-pen will bite each
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fact that the destruction raging in
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them as far as they can understand
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fear in this manner and return, app
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they knew about its wickedness. It
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from danger and put them in surroun
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her mother's lack of fearnot develo
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dren. We have four examples, where
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urged to adapt themselves to a high
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oth qualities in the eyes of its ow
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misfits.They have in their position
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certainly more than the average ine
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Development of the Mother-Relations
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mother also at times when there is
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other people in the world besides i
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pleasure and avoid pain and discomf
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ooms, the position of the beds and
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Both sexes in this manner have thei
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only one main punishment for anybod
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not develop on quite the same lines
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the present. New ties are form Ther
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fine or even make a mental picture
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urn Road after their houses had bee
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i./?being used as bombs. Playing tr
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their pets, which they probably wou
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finite way of demonstrating the sce
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and narcissistic at the beginning o
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caused by neglect; it can, on the o
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tion of aggression due to the examp
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ig or small that loss may be, the f
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The second case, Sylvia, three and
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the destruction which goes on aroun
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with the mother which contains all
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esidential homes these should be si
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The previous part of the book isbas
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AllayingFearEven children whose mot
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their children. They appreciate eve
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street next to the one in which she
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This same state of affairs continue
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went upstairs or downstairs,Patrick
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Blitz in September and October 1940
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ing underneath, tried to drop a hea
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more than a year her junior.Her lat
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whether this was the way in which s
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ditions was too short to make up fo
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or abnormal outcome seems to be the
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somehow included in it and soon bec
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een re-opened,excited much comment
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with an absent love object. We say
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Page 160 and 161: Ronny, seven years old, who takes v
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