Comments on: Failure to Launch Generates Dramatic Tension http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/failure-to-launch-generates-dramatic-tension/ 200 Essays and Interviews to Help You Read and Write Memoirs Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:38:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Monty http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/failure-to-launch-generates-dramatic-tension/comment-page-1/#comment-2820 Monty Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:04:40 +0000 http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/?p=648#comment-2820 Sounds like the PUER AETERNUS (PUELLA AETERNA) condition. Longfellow wrote a poem about it, and it appears elsewhere in literature. I've struggled with it for decades. In my case, and I suspect others, at the root of it is childhood trauma that interferes with development. In addition to being shunned and tortured by my mother from the start (and being taken from her for neglect), I had 3 years of development ripped away (age 9-12) by a horribly abusive orphange superintendent who enjoyed beating children. The consequences are permanent, but can be molded into something positive. Such is the theme of my memoir. Thanks for raising a subject dear to my heart. Sounds like the PUER AETERNUS (PUELLA AETERNA) condition. Longfellow wrote a poem about it, and it appears elsewhere in literature. I’ve struggled with it for decades. In my case, and I suspect others, at the root of it is childhood trauma that interferes with development. In addition to being shunned and tortured by my mother from the start (and being taken from her for neglect), I had 3 years of development ripped away (age 9-12) by a horribly abusive orphange superintendent who enjoyed beating children. The consequences are permanent, but can be molded into something positive. Such is the theme of my memoir.

Thanks for raising a subject dear to my heart.

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