Mother infant attachment and psychoanalysis the eyes of shame english edition ebook ayers mary y amazonde kindle shop. Mother infant attachment and psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflected look in the mothers eyes and that this shame is then internalised by the infant and reverberates through its later life the author further expands on this concept of the look through a powerful and extensive study of the concept of the evil eye an enduring universal belief that eyes have the power to inflict injury finally she presents ways of healing . Mother infant attachment and psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflected look in the mothers eyes and that this shame is then internalised by the infant and reverberates through its later life the author further expands on this concept of the look through a powerful and extensive study of the concept of the evil eye an enduring universal belief that eyes have the power to inflict injury finally she presents ways of healing . Mother infant attachment and psychoanalysis argues that shame can develop during the first six months of life through an unreflected look in the mothers eyes and that this shame is then internalised by the infant and reverberates through its later life