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Confronting Bluebeard: totalitarian regimes in childhood and in the collective psyche |
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| Authors: | Susanna Wright |
| Abstract: | Beginning with the story of Bluebeard, the author considers how traumatic overwhelm can occur in everyday childhood situations of a psychically murderous quality; for example, a nanny’s totalitarian regime may be invisible to parents ruled by collective social and cultural norms. A child who is remote from mother and idealises a father embodying a powerful patriarchal system may remain naïvely dependent in marriage and unable to cope with the realities of human aggression. The paper describes analytic work with a woman who had suffered repeated breakdowns and needed to relinquish a fragile, socially constructed identity in order to establish her own true orientation. |
| Keywords: | Bluebeard breakdown gender role norms nanny patriarchal traumatic overwhelm Barbe Bleue patriarcal dé bordement traumatique normes concernant les rô les lié s au genre assistante maternelle depression Blaubart patriarchal traumatische Ü berwä ltigung Normen der Geschlechtsrollen Kinderfrau Zusammenbruch Barbablù patriarcale inondazione traumatica ruoli gender bambinaia crollo С и н я я Б о р о д а п а т р и а р х а л ь н о е т р а в м а т и ч е с к и й з а х в а т г е н д е р н ы е р о л е в ы е н о р м ы н я н я с р ы в Barba Azul patriarcal devastació n traumá tica normas basadas en roles de gé nero abuelita crisis 蓝 胡 子 父 权 创 伤 性 的 压 制 性 别 角 色 规 范 保 姆 崩 溃 |