Well-broken children, The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

The Victorian attitude towards inflicting the archeotrauma (alt. archaeotrauma), the psychological wound human beings, horses, and other animals sustain when their spirit is broken.

Writing about mid-nineteenth century society, Samuel Butler says (via Edward Overton, narrator):

"If their wills were well broken in childhood, to use an expression then much in vogue, they would acquire habits of obedience..."

Post-trauma conditioning then removes any remaining natural resistance to psychological control until the desired degree of enduring submission is attained.

In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Way of All Flesh twelfth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

The Way of All Flesh (sometimes called Ernest Pontifex, or the Way of All Flesh) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy.

Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published posthumously in 1903 it was accepted as part of the general reaction against Victorianism.

George Orwell and A. A. Milne were influenced by the book (Wiki).

See www.evopsychology.com

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Taken in: UK / England / Dover District / Dover (show map)

Taken on: November 14, 2023

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