Weinstein Lissa, Shustorovich Ellen
Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at City College of the City University of New York, NY, USA.
Psychoanal Study Child. 2011;65:79-102. doi: 10.1080/00797308.2011.11800833.
Middle childhood is a pivotal time in character development during which enduring internal structures are formed. Fiction can offer insights into the cognitive and affective shifts of this developmental phase and how they are transformed in adulthood. While the success of beloved books for latency age children lies in the solutions they offer to the conflict between the pull toward independence and the pull back to the safety of childhood, the enduring stories for adults about children in their middle years can be seen as works of mourning for the relationship with the parents and the childhood self, but more importantly as attempts to transform their experience of middle childhood through the retrospective creation of a coherence that was initially absent. Thematic and structural elements distinguish two groups of stories for adults: the first appears to solve the conflicts of this period by importing adult knowledge and perspective into the narrative of childhood; the second describes the unconscious disorganizing aspects of this period, thereby offering readers a chance to reorganize their own memories, to make a coherent whole out of the fragmented, the confusing, and the unresolved.
童年中期是性格发展的关键时期，在此期间会形成持久的内在结构。小说可以洞察这一发展阶段的认知和情感转变，以及它们在成年后如何转变。虽然深受潜伏期儿童喜爱的书籍的成功在于它们为独立的吸引力与回归童年安全的吸引力之间的冲突提供的解决方案，但成年人关于童年中期孩子的经久不衰的故事可以被视为对与父母及童年自我关系的哀悼之作，但更重要的是，它们是通过回顾性地创造最初缺乏的连贯性来试图改变他们童年中期经历的尝试。主题和结构元素区分了两类面向成年人的故事：第一类似乎是通过将成人的知识和视角引入童年叙事来解决这一时期的冲突；第二类描述了这一时期无意识的混乱方面，从而为读者提供了一个重新组织自己记忆的机会，将碎片化、令人困惑和未解决的部分整合为一个连贯的整体。
