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Severe tubercular leprosy (or ichthyosis) of the hand. Photograph: Wellcome Library, London
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On the prophylactic value of play
17th May 2022
In my last blog post I shared some of Melanie Klein’s notes on friendship, found in file PP/KLE/C.9 of the archive. The material I’ve unearthed this time comes from the same file, but here we see Klein reflecting on the importance of play in the early relationship between the mother and her infant/child, and that between the infant/child and other important individuals in his or her life, including siblings. Klein’s focus here is the impact of the child’s experience of play on their development and overall happiness, and she draws on her work with an adult patient to highlight the suffering that may follow when a mother doesn’t play with her child.
We can see Klein reflecting carefully upon the subtle interplay of external and internal or constitutional factors, which has such a bearing on the infant and, later, child’s subjective experience of the world, environment, and other people. She takes into account, for example, the infant’s ‘responsive attitude’, as well as the capacity of the mother or others to really engage with the infant, for instance by getting down and playing ‘on the nursery floor’. She also points to the mitigating function of happy play, which helps an individual to bear conflict and worry, and lessens the sense of a gap between the generations.
As with many of her notes, those reproduced here are typed up, though clearly still in the process of being thought through and developed, with handwritten annotations, corrections and sometimes lines drawn through words and passages.
The first play therapy – a prophylactic one – starts with the mother’s playing with her child. The baby early responds to a playful attitude on the part of the people around him, and much is gained by this responsive attitude of the baby. Play between mother and baby contributes greatly to their happy relation. Furthermore, the playing together of children in the home, and next, with other playmates in the kindergarten – all the settings in which children play together or grown-ups play with children – are of great prophylactic value.
In the psycho-analysis of grown-ups one can see how these memories of happy play with mother or brothers and sisters or friends make up for much worry and conflict of different kinds, and produce a very strong tie between members of the same family. A home where there is no play in common remains cold, and there will be a wide gap between the child and his parents.
An adult patient of mine, a man who was not liable to cry, had an outburst of tears and cried an hour through when he remembered that his mother had never played with him on the nursery floor. She had been very fond of him, and he had been accustomed to go into the drawing room and was allowed to play there for a while. But that to him was never real play. On the nursery floor one could behave much more freely, need not take so much care to keep clean – actually, one could more readily express one’s phantasies.
Klein notes the important role of play, as well as imagination, in liberating unconscious phantasy. Without such a liberation of phantasy within an environment that can receive and not be too alarmed by it, the personality may remain, or become, significantly constricted. Klein continues:
Play in common increases love and trust, improves human relationships, and helps the child to overcome fears. For instance, let us take the game of a child who is pretending that he is shooting lions in the jungle (represented by a few chairs), or who is harpooning whales, from a couch which represents the ship. If the mother can join in such a game (and she may be asked to do so if the relation between herself and her child is good enough) then not only does she share pleasure with him but she is felt to be a helper, a good figure, as it were, against the bad and dangerous beings of his phantasies, which are represented by lions and whales…. (File PP/KLE/C.9; Images 42/, 43/ and 44/76)
Such experiences of play with trusted others, Klein writes, are:
… of the greatest importance for future relationships to people… It is an invaluable gain for the child’s mental and intellectual development, and for his happiness, if by means of play he can liberate his unconscious phantasies and express his impulses of various kinds. (Image 46/76)
Klein continues:
Every child is in the greatest need of a really understanding love as a support against his fears derived from internal sources. The mother’s love and understanding can hardly be expressed in a more suitable way than by becoming a good playmate to her child. In doing so she no doubt achieves something of which she may very well not be at all aware, that is, that she really understands her child, by which I mean that she unconsciously feels what goes on in the child’s unconscious… Furthermore, the gratifications which the child shares with the people who play with him help him to gain trust in them, and thus become the foundation for an improved relation between the child and grown-ups in general. The grown-up person who plays with the child in a way which responds to the child’s mind… puts himself on a level with the child and does away with the great gap which exists between the[m.] (Image 48/76)
Finally, on imagination and play, Klein writes:
The connection between the child’s imagination and his play is an obvious one. One can easily observe how the child can make a plaything of any object, and that he is guided by his imagination when doing so. That the child’s imagination is more strongly at work than that of the adult has probably always been understood, and the relation between play and imagination more or less recognised. But it has been left to psycho-analysis to discover the wealth and depth of the child’s phantasy life and also the importance of these phantasies for his whole development. Psycho-analysis has found that the child’s phantasies can be developed and play an important part in his later activities and sublimations. So true is this that one can say that a too strong repression of his phantasies inhibits the development of activities and sublimations and impoverishes his whole personality. It appeared that whatever can be seen and observed of the child’s imaginative life is on the whole a very small and weak expression of what goes on in the depths of his mind. (Images 60/ and 61/76)
#melanie klein#psychoanalysis#child therapy#infant play#child development#early relationships#wellcome library#unconscious phantasy
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Wellcome Images
Wellcome Collection is a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we all think and feel about health. Through exhibitions, collections, live programming, digital, broadcast and publishing, we create opportunities for people to think deeply about the connections between science, medicine, life and art. We are part of Wellcome, which supports science to solve the urgent health challenges…
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Ten bees (Apis species). Etching by M. Harris, ca. 1766. From the Wellcome Collection in JSTOR/Artstor. Creative Commons: Attribution.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.24853955
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Wellcome collection getting me again by teasing me with the idea of reading 'domestic life of scotland in the 18th century' for free and then showing its only a physical book
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This extensive collection of postcards is housed in the Wellcome Library in London, UK. The postcards were originally collected by social historian James Gardiner and depict an array of drag experiences throughout the twentieth century. The earliest postcards capture moments of military and navy soldiers and prisoners of war during WWI. Later photographs, like those from the 1960s, portray familiar scenes from bars like Club 82, a prominent drag bar in New York at the time.
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Where I find images to make into PNGs
Museum / collection websites
Rijksmuseum • Metropolitan Museum of Art • National Gallery of Art • The Walters Art Museum • Europeana • Public Domain Review • The British Library • Victoria & Albert Museum • Wellcome Collection • Risd Museum • Phoenix Ancient Art • Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden • Georgian National Museum • Internet Archive • Getty Images • Louvre • Statens Historiska Muséer • Museum of Applied Arts • Royal Collection Trust • The Walters Art Museum • Science Museum Group • Kunst Historiches Museum Wien • The David Collection • MAK collection
+ pretty much any museum site with a virtual collection
Auction websites
1stDibs • Sothebys • Ruby Lane • Live Auctioneers • Christie’s • Timeline Auctions • Heritage Auctions • Auctionet • Hindman Auctions
Various
My pinterest • Worthpoint • Etsy • Shoplook • Wikimedia Commons • Replacements
Google reverse image search > “find image source” > “visually similar images”
Other PNG blogs
goobersplat • gooberscollage • vile-things • encyclopaedia-ornithonesiae • oceantoyz • transparensies • png-magician • whizpurr • adjpngs • transpareats • transparentstickers • transparenzz • pngtrash • fruit-prince • honeyrolls • bleedingthroughteeth • png-heaven
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(I will be updating this list! If you have suggestions or would like to add or remove your blog from the list, message me)
#there are many more but this is a few of them#i've gotten so many asks about this so i thought a list might be fun#feel free to follow me on pinterest i just started using it more#link to it is under various#hope it helps#faq#png#pngs#moodboard#artboard#transparent#stickers#polyvore#shoplook#imageboard#collage
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The treatment of cardiac arrest (1958) [Wellcome Library on Youtube]
#this shit so cinematic for like no reason at all#technicolor just hits different the colors are so good#anyways first surgery vid post ive never made gifs before so idk#surgery#medical#50's#idk how to tag this#roman posts#organs#anatomy
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1 : Thomas Walkington’s The Opticke Glasse of Humors
2 : Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500-1825
3 : Georg von Welling. Opus Mago-Cabbalisticum et Theosophicum. 1735.
4 : Magic circle from The Discoverie of Witchcraft by Reginald Scot, 1584, Wellcome Collection, London.
5 : The Hours of the Virgin Mary (London, c. 1410): Stowe MS 16, f. 9r. British Library
#grimoires#grimoire pages#occult books#occult knowledge#magic#dark arts#esoterism#occultism#witch#sorceress#priestess
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bisection
in an illuminated "apocalyspe of st. john", germany, ca. 1420
source: London, Wellcome Library, MS.49, fol. 12r
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Decorative front cover and botanical illustrations taken from 'The English Flower Garden of Hardy and Half-Hardy Plants' by William Thompson.
Published 1855 by Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.
Wellcome Library.
archive.org
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Queen Mary I Touching the Neck of a Boy for the King's Evil (Scrofula)
M. S. Lapthorn (active 1911)
Wellcome Collection
After a watercolour in Queen Mary's manual which is housed in the library of Westminster Cathedral. 'King's evil' is also called scrofula. It can be described as a form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph glands in the neck. There is a tradition that this ailment could be cured by royal touch. This tradition dates from the reign of Edward the Confessor.
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Talisman against storms, lightning, hail and floods (Saturday under Saturn). Vol. II. Les Clavicules de R. Salomon, late 18th century, MS 4670, Wellcome Library, London.
#talisman#pentacle#solomonic magic#key of solomon#ritual magic#magic#ceremonial magic#occult#esotericism#grimoires#grimoire#saturn
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any recommendations/personal favourites from the image collections to print out and make a wall collage out of? (extra love if it’s not artstor, my uni doesnt have a subscription to that)
I love this question! It very much depends on your personal vibe, but here's a list of every collection designated as open to get you started:
Folger Shakespeare Library
Images from the History of Medicine
Museum of New Zealand - Te Papa Tongarewa
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Science Museum Group
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Statens Museum for Kunst-National Gallery of Denmark
The Cleveland Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wellcome Collection
#i am partial to the metropolitan museum of art but that's just me#jstor#ask#open access#open content#image collections
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Smutt 18+ be aware
Your room was separted from your husband but there was a shared sitting room with a small library and a fireplace shared by both of you
- Aemond... - you called him, he was sitting by the fireplace lost in thought...
- is quite late my dear wife... go to sleep...-he was always kind and soft with you, but he didn't share your bed since your wedding night and you started to miss what he has made you feel that night, you wanted Aemond in your bed everynight
- will you not join me? - he turned his face to look at you and realised you were being sincere, he stand and walked to you and grab your hands in his own
- are you certain? - he noticed you trembling but your nerves were because you didnt want to disapointed him
- I just wish to be with you
- I dont want you to be afraid, I will always protect you - even your marriage was political you felt atracted to Aemond since the first time you met him, he was protected and very jealous especially of his oun brother who wasnt allowed to get to close to his new sister in law, who was very closed to you was Helaena you became sisters and despite everyone said not to pay atention to her talking, you enjoyed being with her very much
- I'm not afraid of you -
- if I join you in your bed you'll have to allow me to see you... all of you - the colour of your cheeks blushed and Aemond found it endering - I wish our marriage to be a real one
- I wish for that too Aemond, I dont want us to be apart...I want you in my bed every night
Aemond gave a small smile getting closer, wrap an arm around your waist and you close your eyes feeling his lips on yours
Your cheeks turn crimson red when he walked you inside your bedroom, never stoped kissing your lips neck and jaw his hands made quick work undoing your nighgrown leaving you expose to him for the first time
- you are so beautiful...
- may I see you too? - he grab your hands and guied them on his oun clothes, his chest and torso were so tone you put your palms flat on his chest - you are very handsome too husband - Aemond undid his pants pushing gently to your body to lied on the bed, he made himself space between your legs, you felt his hand exploring and your moan his name closing your eyes
- look at me... - your eyes opened when his face buried between your folds and you cried out in plesure...- dont hold any moan or cry I want to hear you
- Aemond - his name lost in your throat as your orgasm hit u and his mouth was once again in yours you tasted youself in his lips and he pushed one knee into your leg opening them you wellcomed him between them, you felt his hardness pressing into your core, you were super sensitive both of you moan as he entered you - please... move - he stated moving and soon both of you were a mess of sweat, moans and completly lost in plesure
- will you let me see you? - you said carresing his scar, you were so gentle with him Aemond soon relax under your touch
- you can take it off - you did revealing a sapphire where his eye should have been
- is beautiful like you - you caress his cheek and Aemond kiss your hand - will you stay all night with me?
- I'll stay every night with you - your fingers found his hair in your sleep Aemond hugged you closer to him
#aemond targaryen x you#aemond targaryen fanfiction#aemond targaryen x reader#prince aemond#aemond one eye#aemond x reader#aemond fanfiction#aemond targaryen#aemond x oc#prince aemond targaryen#aemond targaryen x oc
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