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      • Although now considered a classic, Where the Wild Things Are was initially met with mixed reviews, as some critics claimed it would traumatize children.
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  2. May 8, 2012 · The power of art, imagination and daydream allow children to turn traumatic moments into vehicles for survival and growth. Stanton Peele, a licensed psychologist and attorney who has authored ...

    • The Child and The Man
    • Sendak and Psychoanalysis
    • How Do Children Survive?

    Art was Sendak’s means of ‘recovery’ from his own childhood; his published works represent his gift to all children. By his own accounts, Maurice Sendak’s childhood was filled with misery. Born in Brooklyn in 1928, he was the youngest of three children. His parents, Phillip and Sadie, had emigrated from shtetls in Poland before the First World War....

    For our purposes, it is especially noteworthy that Sendak was in psychoanalysis for a period during his early adulthood. He certainly counted psychoanalysts among his closest friends. His partner of 50 years, who died in 2007, was a psychoanalyst. Rumour has it that the wolf suit that Max wears in Where the Wild Things Are, was modelled on a pair o...

    There is a remarkable thematic coherence to much of Sendak’s work, and this coherence links creative efforts that are decades apart and, additionally, links these works to what is known about his early life and formative years. Sendak himself has commented on his single-minded focus, saying, ‘I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with...

  3. Oct 1, 2024 · Although now considered a classic, Where the Wild Things Are was initially met with mixed reviews, as some critics claimed it would traumatize children. However, others praised the work for dealing with childhood anger, noting that it explains the purpose of “time-outs,” assists children with anger management, and teaches them to channel ...

  4. May 23, 2023 · It's a book that captures "this inescapable fact of childhood," as Sendak described to Braun – "the awful vulnerability of children and their struggle to make themselves king of all wild...

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  5. This chapter examines Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a piece of children's literature considered by many as one of the most influential stories for very young children on the cusp of literacy and on the verge of legality.

  6. Wild Things offers a way for children to see how angry feelings and rebellious thoughts can be expressed, with all the strength of a band of terrible monsters, and yet when the rage is all over, a parent still loves them.

  7. Dec 12, 2022 · Key points. Maurice Sendak created an idyllic fantasy land where kids can rule over the very fears and forces that beset growing up. Kids are in some ways more resilient and less easily...

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