Radomisli M
Am J Psychoanal. 1981 Summer;41(2):121-7. doi: 10.1007/BF01253716.
Asserting that preteen children cannot tolerate ambivalence, a recent study extols the "wicked stepmother" stereotype in fairy tales for providing a safe outlet for child-mother aggression. However, even theories which consider splitting normal in object-relations development see it as operating mostly before age 3. Dualistic thinking is not ubiquitous in childhood, nor is it ever outgrown. Rather, it is a mode of organizing experience mythopoetically; we learn to minimize its intrusions in dealings with day-to-day realities. There is no scientific justification for (and there are moral objections to) the propagation of the wicked stepmother stereotype.
最近的一项研究断言，青春期前的儿童无法忍受矛盾情绪，该研究称赞童话中“邪恶继母”的刻板印象为儿童对母亲的攻击性提供了一个安全的发泄途径。然而，即使是那些认为在客体关系发展中分裂是正常现象的理论，也认为这种现象主要发生在3岁之前。二元思维在童年时期并非普遍存在，也不会随着年龄增长而消失。相反，它是一种以神话方式组织经验的模式；我们学会在处理日常现实时尽量减少其干扰。传播邪恶继母的刻板印象没有科学依据（而且在道德上也遭到反对）。
