Men as Primary Love Objects: On Mahler, Separateness, and Father Roles

1992 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
Mark R. Gover
Keyword(s):  
Primary Love ◽  
Father Roles

Primary Love—Primary Illusion

1969 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 371-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Shor
Keyword(s):  
Primary Love

Letter to Michael Balint

2016 ◽  
pp. 43-44
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
British Society ◽  
Primary Love

Winnicott writes to Michael Balint about a paper of Balint’s presented to the British Society. Winnicott believes that though they work from different perspectives both of them are interested in early environmental provision, and what happens when there is a failure at that level. Winnicott disputes Balint’s term ‘primary love’ because for him there is no relationship until the infant has established the capacity to make relationships. Winnicott doubts whether an infant is aware when the environment is satisfactory, but thinks he is affected when it fails. Initially, for Winnicott, the infant is only present in an unintegrated way. Winnicott also disagrees with Balint’s use of the word ‘harmonious’ in primary love because he thinks that this term signifies that a highly complex defence (i.e. negative, also) organization is at work in the child who is no longer a new baby or a pre-natal infant.

scholarly journals Estrangement and Selfhood in the Classical Concept of Waṭan

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 16-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaseen Noorani
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
Arabic Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Classical Concept ◽  
Subjective Meaning ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Classical Arabic ◽  
Primary Love

The modern Arabic term for national homeland, waṭan, derives its sense from the related yet semantically different usage of this term in classical Arabic, particularly in classical Arabic poetry. In modern usage, waṭan refers to a politically defined, visually memorialized territory whose expanse is cognized abstractly rather than through personal experience. The modern waṭan is the geopolitical locus of national identity. The classical notion of waṭan, however, is rarely given much geographical content, although it usually designates a relatively localized area on the scale of a neighborhood, town, or village. More important than geographical content is the subjective meaning of the waṭan, in the sense of its essential place in the psyche of an individual. The waṭan (also mawṭin, awṭān), both in poetry and other types of classical writing, is strongly associated with the childhood/youth and primary love attachments of the speaker. This sense of waṭan is thus temporally defined as much as spatially, and as such can be seen as an archetypal instance of the Bakhtinian chronotope, one intrinsically associated with nostalgia and estrangement. The waṭan, as the site of the classical self’s former plenitude, is by definition lost or transfigured and unrecoverable, becoming an attachment that must be relinquished for the sake of virtue and glory. This paper argues that the bivalency of the classical waṭan chronotope, recoverable through analysis of poetic and literary texts, allows us to understand the space and time of the self in classical Arabic literature and how this self differs from that presupposed by modern ideals of patriotism.

The Effect of Neglectful Parent towards Children during Movement Control Order (MCO) of Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-175
Author(s):  
Iylia Mohamad Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Movement Control ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Easy Task ◽  
Parental Neglect ◽  
The Family ◽  
Control Order ◽  
Father Roles ◽  
At Home

Being a parent and a worker at the same time is not an easy task. The responsibilities of both job need an understanding from a spouse and also the superior of the company to understand their workers. As parent, they need to take care of their children while as a worker, they need to complete the task given as ordered. All these make parents have to choose which will be their priority to do on that day. Unfortunately, if most of the day they decided to choose work as their priority, the outcomes is, parents did not realize they have neglect their children. Weather busy working of office work or doing house chores children are abandoned. They let the children play alone, watch television alone unattended, not responding to the questions and more. Children by themselves are force to understand their parents’ “work” while deep inside, they are emotionally abuse by their parents. Therefore this study is to find what effects parents to neglect their children. There are 158 parents were involved in this study during the Movement Control Order (MCO) period. They are at least having one child. Result found, there are not significant but, by mean score, a father is more likely to neglect their children because by perspective, a father is less likely to involve with their children compared to a mother. A father roles also is usually to fulfil the family’s necessary needs such as food, shelter, clothes and money. They rarely at home with the children. By having helpers such as maid or spouse, it can be help to ease their burden. Hence, it can prevent them to neglect their children. Lastly, this study is to find the working affairs of the family. Result shown by mean score comparison, parents who get high pay RM 8001 and above is leading to parental neglect and those who need to go to work during MCO, also lead to parental neglect.

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