Editing Alice Miller (psychologist) (section)

===''Thou Shalt Not Be Aware'' <small> (''Du sollst nicht merken'', 1981) </small>===

Unlike Miller's later books, this one is written in a semi-academic style. It was her first critique of psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies, which she described in ''For Your Own Good''. Miller was critical of both [[Freud]] and [[Carl Jung]]. She scrutinised Freud's [[Drive theory (psychoanalysis)|drive theory]], a device that, according to her and [[Jeffrey Masson]], blames the child for the abusive sexual behaviour of adults. Miller also theorised about [[Franz Kafka]], who was abused by his father but fulfilled the politically correct function of mirroring abuse in metaphorical novels, instead of exposing it.

In the chapter entitled "The Pain of Separation and Autonomy," Miller examined the [[authoritarian]] (e.g.: [[Old Testament]], [[Papist]], [[Calvinist]]) interpretation of [[Judeo-Christian]] [[theism]] and its parallels to modern parenting practice, asserting that it was [[Jesus]]'s father [[Saint Joseph|Joseph]] who should be credited with Jesus's departure from the dogmatic [[Judaism]] of his time.

'''<big>''Pictures of Childhood''</big>  <small>(1986)</small>''' 

'''''<big>The Untouched Key</big>''''' <small> '''(''Der gemiedene Schlüssel'', 1988)''' </small>

This book was partly a [[psychobiography]] of [[Nietzsche]], [[Picasso]], [[Käthe Kollwitz|Kollwitz]] and [[Buster Keaton]]; (in Miller's later book, ''The Body Never Lies'', published in 2005, she included similar analyses of [[Dostoyevsky]], [[Anton Chekhov|Chekhov]], [[Schiller]], [[Rimbaud]], [[Yukio Mishima|Mishima]], [[Proust]] and [[James Joyce]]).

According to Miller, Nietzsche did not experience a loving family and his philosophical output was a metaphor of an unconscious drive against his family's oppressive theological tradition. She believed that the philosophical system was flawed because Nietzsche was unable to make emotional contact with the abused child inside him. Though Nietzsche was severely punished by a father who lost his mind when Nietzsche was a little boy, Miller did not accept the [[genetics|genetic]] theory of madness. She interpreted Nietzsche's psychotic breakdown as the result of a family tradition of Prussian modes of child-rearing.