THE POLITICS OF DENIAL

What becomes of all those people who are the successful products of a strict upbringing? It is inconceivable that they were able to express and develop their true feelings as children, for anger and helpless ra ge, which they were forbidden to display, would have been among these feelings-particularly if these children were beaten, humiliated, lied to, and deceived. What becomes of this forbidden and therefore unexpre ssed anger? Unfortunately, it does not disappear, but is transformed w ith time into a more or less conscious hatred directed against either the self oh substitute persons, a hatred that will seek to discharge i tself in various ways permissible and suitable for an adult (Alice Mil ler, 1983, p. 61).