Childhood emotional tones get reapplied to adult situations

Evidence

When your parents are away even for an hour it feel as though it goes on forever and you really deeply miss them – and the abstraction, the tone component of that just carries on through life. Gets applied to different situations. These longings – and all other emotional parts of the spectrum – join the repertoire of tones we carry and apply. Some moments last forever. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 436

Categorization

• XREF: This mechanism — emotional ‘tone components’ formed in childhood re-applied later — is a psychological basis for the hauntological idea in this same book (ghosts as replayed emotional grammar). — connects to: Childhood ruin of industrial England was a formative reservoir for later London imagery — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 393; A scene’s emotional tone, not its image, determines dream meaning — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 434; Enclosure of cheap urban space drove cultural conservatism by eliminating room for experimentation — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 471 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Children interpret adult messages in unpredictable and deeply internalized ways #expands (0.85) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1028
• Even well-meaning Europeans’ childhood racial imagery persists into adulthood #exemplifies (0.85) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 708
• Adult distrust from childhood abuse persists even when unjustified by current conditions #exemplifies (0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 543
• Early scientific political psychology measured childhood experience against adult political personality #exemplifies (0.80) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 348
• Lack of love in early childhood causes lifelong affective insecurity #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 278
• Childhood experiences with parents can predict later political behavior #contradicts (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 342
• Most behavioral coding is acquired unconsciously during childhood socialization #expands (0.75)
• The uncanny surfaces when foreign scenes trigger repressed childhood imagery. #qualifies (0.75)
• Fear learned in childhood drives authoritarian aggression #expands (0.75)