Alice Miller Audio [english]

Interview given by Alice Miller to Borut Petrovic JesenovecQuestions:Among thousands of other folk tales [Little Red Riding-Hood] stands out as incredibly popular. What does it tell us about our attitude to children in our culture?I am always shocked by the "official" interpretation that the mother of Little Red Riding-Hood is well-intended and caring. She sends her young daughter into a dangerous forest explaining that this is an honourable task (poor grandmother is sick after all). I find this mother cruel, wicked, even perverse. Would you agree?When I wanted to talk about some of the nasty aspects of my childhood, I was turned down and reminded that everything has its good and its bad side and that’s why we should concentrate on the bright side of life and adopt a positive attitude. In such argumentation even abuse has something valuable. How would you react to such relativisation and relativism?How would you define abuse?How many people do you think were abused in their childhood?Human blindness to abuse