The Well of Being: Childhood, Subjectivity, and Education

Index

Abrams, M.H., ix–x, 123, 144–145 Adult-child relation, xi, 3, 5–7, 10–13, 14, 17, 19, 58, 61–62, 70, 71–75, 85–104, 131, 148, 152–161, 170, 186 Adulthood/adults, 3–6, 19, 23–24, 33, 162–163 “childhood amnesia” and, 15, 58, 137 Christian, 27–28, 33, 38, 67–69, 115, 123, 144 continuity with childhood, 58–60 “disappearance” of, 6, 75, 103–104, 134–135 fall and division as, 38, 40, 42–46, 48–49, 140–141 Greek, Stoic, and Epicurean, 6, 65–68 history of, 62, 66–85 ideology of, 13–15, 21–23, 62 medieval, 16, 76, 79, 81, 101, 140 modern, 6, 66–68, 77–85, 89, 171–172 reconstruction of, 14, 19, 22, 24, 61, 136, 148 reinvention of, 63, 66, 88 transitional space and, 60, 72, 82, 121–122, 123, 131, 137–140 “Adult-child” the, 6 Adultism, 62, 63 64, 67, 70–73, 85–86, 99, 160, 162, 184 Agape, 37, 39, 41 Alterity, 8, 71–72, 96, 102, 111, 112, 125–128, 131, 146, 147, 162, 167, 174 Angelico, Fra, 35 Anselm, 11, 34, 45 Aries, Philippe, 63, 76, 92, 101 Aristotle, 4, 5, 6, 8–9, 18, 64–66, 98, 110, 161. Also see “Subjectivity, Aristotelian” Augustine, 10 Bachelard, Gaston, xi–xii, 20, 137 Baldwin, J.M., 47 Baudrillard, Jean, 109 Bernanos, Georges, 50 Bernard of Clairvoix, 11, 34, 45 Binet, Alfred, 174 Blake, William, 46, 122, 123, 124, 146 Boethius, 32 Boswell, John, 5, 76 Bret, Antoine, 49 Brown, N.O., x, 60, 94–95, 117 Bruner, Jerome, 174 Buber, Martin, 17, 158–162, 163 Index 229 Caravaggio, 40 Cassirer, Ernst, 47–48 Cavallo, Dominick, 156 Childhood/children ambivalence toward, 6–12, 90, 93, 95 archetype, xi, 9, 28–44, 52, 70 androgyny and, 30, 38, 45, 60, 64, 98 art of, 20, 144 autobiography and, 4, 48, 97 Calvinism and, 12, 69, 87–88, 90 child study and, 1–2, 12–13, 64, 98–99 Christianity and, 8, 10–11, 23, 27–28, 32, 33–34, 36–37, 45–46, 50–52, 53, 86, 92 cultural transformation and, x, 24, 154 culture of, 96, 163, differences from adults, 7, 15–16, 63, 68, 147, 162–163, 171 disappearance of, 75, 104, 135 divine child, 11, 29–43, 60. Also see “primordial child” and “puer aeternus” early modern, 63, 66, 90, 93, 141 enigmatic child, 11, 43, 45 evolutionary theory and, 12, 27, 64, 98–99, 105, 115–116, 120, 136 family and, 41, 49, 92, 133, 134, 135, 148, 172 fool and, 10, 11, 28, 29, 34 hermeneutics of, 17–21, 45, 51 history of, 63, 75–103 iconography of, 31–43, 60, 143 infans, 29, 36 “inner child,” 6, 7, 24, 31, 39, 62, 100, 159 “invention” of, 63, 66, 76, 89 Jesus sayings and, 10–11, 28, 33–34, 48 limit condition as, 7, 9 latency stage and, 4, 152, 155–156, 166, 171 medieval, 4, 5, 11, 12, 33–34, 45, 76 organic metaphor and, 97–99 “polymorph” and, 15 primordial child, 28, 29, 31, 33, 44, 61, 62, 70. Also see “divine child” and “puer aeternus” privileged stranger as, 142–149 proof text as, 8, 10, 12, 87, 99 puer aeternus, 28, 30. Also see “divine child” and “primordial child” puer senex, 33, 89 Puritans and, 90 recapitulation theory and, 64, 99 Renaissance art in, 31, 34–42 Romantic understanding of, 4, 12, 25, 34, 39, 44–62, 73, 91, 143, 148. Also see “Romanticism” sexuality and, 5, 8, 16, 30, 36, 38, 60, 99, 145 screens for adult projection as, 7–9, 11, 15, 142 text as, 18–20 “Childman,” the, 144 Child-rearing modes, 22, 74, 85–103, 133 Abandoning, 86–87 Ambivalent, 87–88 Empathic, 101–102, 135, 137, 146–148, 156–157, 174, 184 Infanticidal, 86 Intrusive, 88–96, 141, 143, 173, 175 Socializing, 96–101, 133, 156, 174 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 25, 136, 137, 167 Colonization, 58, 84–85 childhood and, 12, 44, 62, 64, 72, 93, 98, 153 education/schooling and, 84, 98–99, 166, 173, 178, 183 Crashaw, Richard, 44, 45, 48 230 The Well of Being Darwin, Charles, 1, 2, 12, 64, 98, 120 daVinci, Leonardo, 40 Defoe, Daniel, 93 deMause, Lloyd, 22, 74, 86–106 passim, 132–133, 137, 147, 156 Depressive position, 140–141 Derrida, Jacques, 7–8 Descartes, Renee, 23, 82, 114–115, 120 Developmental...