The Seba library treats Alice Miller in 5 passages, across 3 authors (including Hillman, James, Schwartz, Richard C, Moore, Robert).
for Alice Miller, the motivating force and haunting demon in the horror of Hitler was not a daimon at all but an introjected father image. Thus does the parental fallacy exorcise the evil.
Hillman argues that Miller’s reduction of Hitler’s destructiveness to a paternal introject exemplifies the ‘parental fallacy,’ which he contends dissolves genuine daimonic evil into developmental causation.
, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996thesis
In The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller (1981) offers a poignant description of the parentified child’s predicament, which is identical to the predicament of many manager parts in internal families.
Schwartz deploys Miller’s clinical description of the parentified child as a direct structural parallel for the IFS concept of ‘manager parts,’ affirming the transferability of her insight to a systems-theory framework.
, Internal Family Systems Therapy, 1995thesis
Alice Miller would agree with Sereny, for she states clearly that ‘All absurd behavior has its roots in early childhood’ and that ‘Hitler actually succeeded in transferring the trauma of his family life onto the entire Ger’
Hillman summarizes Miller’s developmental determinism — that all aberrant behavior originates in childhood trauma — as the position he is contesting through the acorn theory of innate character.
, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996supporting
Some psychologists see human aggressiveness emerging out of infantile rage, the child’s natural reaction to what Alice Miller has called ‘
Moore briefly invokes Miller’s concept of infantile rage as one psychoanalytic explanation for human aggressiveness before situating it within a broader archetypal account of the Warrior energy.
, King Warrior Magician Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, 1990supporting
Miller, Alice. For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-rearing and the Roots of Violence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983.
A bibliographic citation in Hillman’s Soul’s Code confirms that ‘For Your Own Good’ is the primary Miller text engaged in his critique of the parental fallacy.
, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996aside