If You Can't Trust Your Mother, Whom Can You Trust? Soul Murder, Psychoanalysis and Creativity

Epigraphs , Part One , Kaspar Hauser and soul murder , A note on soul murder , Dickens, Little Dorrit, and soul murder , Haunted by parents: Samuel Butler , Swinburne-a child who wanted to be beaten , Part Two , Jules Renard: soul murder in life and literature , Kipling, his early life and work-an attempt at soul murder , E. M. Forster , Elizabeth Bishop: the moth and the mother , King Lear and the multiple meanings of "nothing" , Clinical example of becoming able to transcend (but not eliminate) being haunted by parents , Child abuse and deprivation: soul murder 1