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Quotes from The Emotional Life of Nations — Lloyd deMause

born 1931 United States

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It is no wonder that historians have chosen to hide, deny and whitewash the record here uncovered.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Most ethnologists scrupulously avoid describing how these children feel about participating in the killing or eating of their siblings.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Most historians have been as little able to feel empathy for infants sent to wet nurses as the mothers themselves were.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Anthropologists have concluded that "child abuse...is virtually unknown" in New Guinea.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Anthropologists have promulgated the myth of the peaceful savage so effectively that when actual deaths by war are tabulated for prestate simple societies, one is astonished by how such a notion can continue to be taught to students.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

That dissociated selves were an everyday part of life in antiquity and the Middle Ages is a much-denied fact of historians, just as anthropologists deny that their subjects are dissociated personalities who live in an animistic world full of alters inhabiting animals, objects, and dead ancestors.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.

The Emotional Life of Nations (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Lloyd deMause (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.