The Effects of Child Abuse as Seen in Adults
George Orwell
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9230678 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard Shengold (1199 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10128, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 20-45 |
| Publication date | 1985-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21674086.1985.11927092 |
| PMID | 3883383 |
| OpenAlex | W2297591844 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
The author presents the case of a patient who showed the massive defensive effects seen in people who were abused in childhood. These effects are similar to those described in George Orwell's 1984 and in his autobiographical writings: denial and "doublethink"; masochistic submission to the tormentor; turning of anger against the self and loving "Big Brother"; identifying with the abuser and tormenting others; a burgeoning of anal mechanisms and obsessive phenomena that results in a massive isolation of affects; excessive emotional control alongside outbursts of rage. The interference with memory and emotions compromises identity and humanity. The unforseeable evolution of innate gifts in a child sometimes permits a partial transcendence of these crippling defenses, as Orwell partially transcended what appears to have been the emotional deprivation of his childhood and what he felt to have been the abuse of his schoolboy years
Aesthetics · Anger · Art · Art history · Denial · George (robot) · Humanity · Identity (music) · Isolation (microbiology) · Psychoanalysis · Rage (emotion) · Child Abuse and Trauma · Child and Adolescent Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2026 (32) |
| Highly cited | No |