“It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.” FeelsChildrenFeelingsMotherLostEmotionEngagedElsewhereParentalAmbivalent Book:The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956 Source: The Writings of Anna Freud: Indications for child analysis and other papers, 1945-1956
“How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.” PeopleKnowsHandsMotherFatherEmotionAttitudePaintingSonDaughterAbstractIntricateSon And DaughterPolaroids Book:At Large Source: At Large
“Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the mother's suicide, a failed relationship, the practice of ballet, a garden-each strict, exacting. And with 'a crow's sky-knowing mind,' Honum in every case transfigures emotion by way of elegant language and formal restraint. Chloe Honum is 'one astounding flame' of a poet, and I predict a long-lasting one.” WayMindFirstsLongBookMotherLanguageEmotionPracticeCasesKnowingSkyIdentityPoetGardenSuicideBrilliantFlamesLastingBalletFormalStrictRestraintElegantCrowDivergentChloeLong LastingFailed Relationship Author:Claudia Emerson