("Are You My Mother")

The book gets less interesting with the author delving into psychoanalysis.

__ She felt at 11 that the Christmas pageant was "trite".
__ 'edit my thoughts before they even take shape'
__ 'I'm using nylong net to fix the frayed shoulders on a silk georgette dress.'
__ On politics: 'There was something embarrassing about the outside world.'
__ 'constant footwork of imagination'

__ "The Drama of the Gifted Child" {Drama indeed.}
__ 'Transitional object' helps a child realize separatation from mother. It's the space between me and 'not me'.
__ 11 has an association with sin.
__ Original Sin as 'unmetablolized emotions we absorb like nicotine from our parents.'
__ 'The compliance on the part of the infant is the earliest stage of the False Self.'
__ Instead of depending on the mother, the baby learns to depend on his own mind.
__ It's a denial of the dependence, a fantasy of self--sufficiency.

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