{"id":2229,"date":"2023-04-27T05:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/henry-james-on-losing-a-mother-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T05:08:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T09:08:04","slug":"henry-james-on-losing-a-mother-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/henry-james-on-losing-a-mother-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry James on Losing a Mother \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cEvery man or woman who is sane, every man or woman who has the feeling of being a person in the world, and for whom the world means something, every happy person, is in infinite debt to a woman,\u201d the visionary psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott wrote as he considered the mother as a pillar of society<\/a>. Having a mother is a lifelong complexity<\/a>. Losing a mother, no matter the nature or duration of the relationship, is the cataclysm of a lifetime. <\/p>\n

That is what Henry James<\/strong> (April 13, 1843\u2013February 28, 1916) reckoned with in his thirty-ninth year, recording the loss in a breathtaking diary entry found in The Complete Notebooks of Henry James<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>).<\/p>\n

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