Vision and separation; between mother and baby

By:

Wright, Kenneth

Material type: Text

TextNorthvale, NJ/London Jason Aronson c1991Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 370p.; bibliog.; indexContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0-87668-559-9

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Abstract: 'His central thesis is that the gaze between mother and baby provides both medium and metaphor for the child to find itself and the other. The zone of the mutual gaze becomes the space of working and reworking, of the establishment of symbols, language, metaphor, and structure....With Winnicott he notes that the mother's face is grasped only through the eyes and that her face has a central role in the formation of the self....he builds a theory of consciousness as a space for things which have fit with the mother, while the unconscious is a 'blind man's space'--a place where first the light of mother's face goes out and, subsequently, the light of her understanding.'

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'His central thesis is that the gaze between mother and baby provides both medium and metaphor for the child to find itself and the other. The zone of the mutual gaze becomes the space of working and reworking, of the establishment of symbols, language, metaphor, and structure....With Winnicott he notes that the mother's face is grasped only through the eyes and that her face has a central role in the formation of the self....he builds a theory of consciousness as a space for things which have fit with the mother, while the unconscious is a 'blind man's space'--a place where first the light of mother's face goes out and, subsequently, the light of her understanding.'

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