Lack of love in early childhood causes lifelong affective insecurity
Evidence
This lack of esteem of self as an object worthy of love has grave consequences. For one thing, it keeps the individual in a state of profound inner insecurity, as a result of which it inhibits or falsifies every relation with others. It is as something that has the right to arouse sympathy or love that the individual is uncertain of himself. The lack of affective self-valuation is to be found only in persons who in their early childhood suffered from a lack of love and understanding. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 278
Categorization
- QUESTION: Fanon asserts the causal origin of affective insecurity in childhood deprivation; worth checking how this applies to the colonial child sent abroad.
- XREF: connects to: The abandonment-neurotic withholds love preemptively to avoid the risk of being abandoned.; Childhood adversity dose predicts adult depression, alcoholism, and suicide attempts — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10671; Authentic love requires the beloved to help one go beyond infantile fantasies — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 164 (+8 more)
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Broader Connections
- Primary emotional attachments ground trust that later extends far beyond them
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