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The Deeper Meaning Behind “Where The Wild Things Are” – Bambanani
Three Things that Where The Wild Things Are Teaches Us About Tantrums
Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is so much more than an adventurous tale. Buried deep in its storyline are meaningful truths about how to think carefully about tantrums and big scary feelings. So here are three important messages in this beautifully sophisticated story.
But first, let’s remember the story
In the book little Max, dressed in his wolf-suit, is sent up to his room without supper for misbehaving. From there, Max sets sail to an island inhabited by the ferocious Wild Things, who name him king and share a wild rumpus with him. But then from far away across the world, Max smells good things to eat and longs for home where “someone loves him best of all.” For a full reading of this book click here.
So what does Where The Wild Things Are teach us about tantrums?
- We ALL have wild things in us!
In the story misbehaving Max is sent to his room in an absolute flap. He is seething with anger and beyond furious with his mom. In his imagination he meets the wild things who “roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.” Now while this presents as a dream of sorts, all this “terribleness” is actually a reference to Max’s enormous feelings of hostility and rage he is feeling in those moments. These overwhelming feelings take him far away, over stormy seas and transport him into another dimension. This doesn’t feel too far from the experience of an inconsolable toddler (for example) whose wild tantrum possesses his body and mind and no one can soothe him. The truth is that angry feelings can feel wild and terrifying. Not because they’re bad, but because of how out of control they can feel when experienced, as if they could gobble you up if they get too big. But don’t worry there’s hope…
- We can survive our wild feelings
As the story goes, Max eventually tames the beasts “with a magic trick of staring into their yellow eyes without blinking once.
” But this isn’t magic at all. Because what Max is really really doing is feeling his anger, riding out his “rumpus” thoughts, remembering what is good again and ultimately surviving it all. It’s important to remember that the wild feelings themselves are not so terrible – they are just feelings after all. But it can feel pretty nasty to experience them. At the end of the story Max realises that he can have the wild feelings in all their glory, but that mom will still love him and all his big feelings no matter what! This understanding that mom loves ALL of him, is what helps him pull himself back together and ultimately re-centres him.
- It’s not just kids that feel wild … but adults too.
Psychoanalyst Joan Raphael-Leff, points out that this story acknowledges that when a child is in a crazed tantrum, they lose sight of all the good in that moment. What is often overlooked, she says, is the effect a child’s emotions has on the carers, and all the wild things they stir up within the grown-up.
When a child screams at you, this is extremely triggering and anxiety levels rise in both parties. Either consciously or unconsciously it drums up our own “terrible roars” from childhood. This results in a confrontation of sorts where our wild things meet theirs, anxiety rises and once anger subsides, guilt takes over. So what causes some parents to lock horns and others to disengage, many to disengage and other to verbalise all the mixed feelings. There are many ways we as parents manage our kid’s tantrums. Raphael-Leff suggests this boils down to our own childhood experiences and how (once upon a time) our own big feelings were handled or mishandled. If your child’s tantrums feel too out of control, it’s important to go and talk it out with a trained psychotherapist to try and name these left-over feelings that may well be lurking in your own jungle. This will allow you the parent to separate from your child in their wildest moments, be more objective and allow the situation to simmer down.
The bottom line
I’m not sure we can master all our gnashing feelings, but I am sure that we can organize them better. The beauty of stories like these is that they put into words what feels abstract and overwhelming. When a child and their carer sit together and read stories about unspeakable things, something important happens between the two of them. So that at the in spite of all the terrible beasts that cause a ‘rumpus’ inside us, we can all lovingly find eachother again (like the “still hot” porridge) and at the end of the day remember that someone still loves us “best of all”.
References:
Raphael-Leff, J: Introduction to Parent Infant Psychodynamics “On wild things within- An introduction to psychoanalytic thinking” (2004) Karnac Books
Sendak, M: Where the Wild Things Are (1984)
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13 wild things that people of the Middle Ages seriously believed in / AdMe
In ADME we found statements that, it would seem, an adult person cannot believe.
But history proves the opposite: in the Middle Ages, when science was going through hard times, people took all sorts of crazy things at face value.
Although we also have a lot of misconceptions about ancient times, and we put one of them at the end as a bonus.
13. Little men sit inside the spermatozoa
© unknown author/visseaux, © Hertwig/embryology.med
Yes, yes, in the 17th and 18th centuries, pundits thought exactly that. Moreover, they thought that in each sperm the child is already fully formed and it remains only to grow. As for the participation of a woman, she allegedly served simply as an "incubator".
A little later, opponents of this opinion appeared, who believed that the germ of life is in the female body, and the male seed only awakens this life. As it turns out, the truth is somewhere in between. nine0005
12. Titivillus
© unknown author/medium
In the Middle Ages, monks served as "printing machines" and copied many books by hand.
No wonder they sometimes made mistakes. Apparently, they did not want to recognize them, because they came up with a special demon of errors Titivillus.
Allegedly, this dirty trickster put the mistakes of each monk in a bag so that after the death of the last one, the devil could present them to him and reduce the monk's chances of getting into heaven. nine0005
11. The heart was buried separately from the person
© thehistoryblog
Transportation of bodies used to be the most difficult thing, but what if the deceased bequeathed to be buried in some place dear to him? To do this, in the 10th century, they came up with the idea of cutting out hearts and burying them where it was not possible to bury the deceased.
Only wealthy people could afford this. Among them are Anne Boleyn, Richard I and Frederic Chopin.
10. The animal could have been summoned to court
© Macclesfield Psalter
Animals used to be considered criminals.
They could be called to court with a real lawyer and judge, put in jail and even hanged.
Caterpillars were once called to court in Lausanne for eating plants in the gardens. They have not come. Then the caterpillars were ordered to leave the city and excommunicated from the church.
Especially often cats were executed, since they most of all looked like minions of the devil. This led to the fact that their numbers fell below nowhere, rodents bred, which infected all of Europe with the plague. That's really a crime! nine0005
9. Once upon a time there was a huge continent in the Pacific Ocean
© alfonsodetomas/depositphotos, © bibliotecapleyades
Once upon a time, different peoples believed that there was a continent in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which later sank. It was called differently: Pacifida, Mu or Lemuria. One of the indirect evidence is the legend of Easter Island, which speaks of a huge island that gradually sank into the water and sank.
8. Gladiators' blood helps with epilepsy
© dreamworksstudios, © ancient-origins
Gladiators in Ancient Rome made bloody sacrifices to the gods before the battles, which gave them strength and stamina. Therefore, people thought that the blood of these warriors had miraculous properties.
The famous Pliny wrote about this: “Epileptics drink the blood of gladiators as if it were the cup of life. They believe that it is best to drink warm blood while the person is still breathing.”
7. Witches keep male sex organs as pets
© davidwgrunner/twitter
In the infamous "Hammer of the Witches", it is mentioned that witches rob men of their sexual organs and treat them like pets. That is, they put them in a nest and feed them.
The strangest thing is that this story did not come out of nowhere: Koro's syndrome is known in medicine, when it seems to patients that some of their organs have suddenly disappeared. Not surprisingly, in the Middle Ages, their loss was blamed on witches.
6. Evil spirits live in Brussels sprouts
© pabkov/depositphotos, © notsomodern
Today, in Western countries, some housewives make a cross-shaped incision on each fork before cooking Brussels sprouts. They say that this way the vegetable is cooked faster, but the legs of this habit grow from here.
In medieval Britain, it was believed that tiny demons were hiding between cabbage leaves. If a person accidentally ate one, indigestion could begin. It looks a lot like microorganisms, doesn't it? We don’t know about washing vegetables, but medieval people came up with the idea of “baptizing” cabbage with the help of such cuts. nine0005
5. Some animals are born spontaneously
© Mesaytsegaye/wikimedia, © Duncan Hull
In the Middle Ages, it was thought that mold, worms and insects could arise just like that - apparently, at the behest of evil forces - from garbage, dirt or dust. Well, with the low level of development of biology, this was the only natural explanation.
But it is strange that the right to be born independently was also deprived of mice and rats. Although, it would seem, one does not need to be a luminary of science to find out how rodents actually reproduce. nine0005
4. Bees are birds
© British Library
Medieval bestiaries, or collections of articles about animals, are also very interesting to read in our time. For example, bees were considered small and very strange birds that not only made honey, but also waged internecine wars with other hives. It was believed that if a bee violated the law of its hive, then it stung itself from an unbearable feeling of guilt and died.
3. And beavers are fish
© unknown author/guo, © Joffroy D'Aspremont/ngv
Firstly, for some reason, the beaver was considered a fish and its meat could be eaten in Lent.
Secondly, beaver testicles had a high medical value; in the Middle Ages, beavers were hunted for them. It was believed that when the beaver realized that he could not run away from his pursuers, he would bite off his testicles and run away.
This legend has a rational side: the beaver stream, or the secret of the beaver glands, is now highly valued by perfumers. nine0005
2. Babies don't feel pain
©pilloledistoria
The claim that little children don't feel pain sounds like a madman's raving, but the opposite was proven quite recently, literally 30 years ago. Their brains were thought to be underdeveloped.
So in the past, babies were sometimes operated on without anesthesia, and if they cried at the same time, it was written off as simple whims.
1. A certain combination of notes can call the devil
© university of Groningen
In the Middle Ages, the church forbade a certain combination of sounds in music - the tritone interval (when there are 3 tones between notes), because this combination sounded very "satanic".
If a person was caught playing music using a tritone, he could be thrown into the vaults of the Inquisition.
You can listen to how the newt sounds here.
Bonus: What We Believe About the Middle Ages
Although the Middle Ages are rightfully considered dark times, many rumors about them are exaggerated. For example, about the fact that people bathed once in their lives or that women were constantly humiliated and not considered human. nine0005
© William Andrews/wikipedia
In reality, of course, there were such precedents and, in general, the woman was still a second-class person. But the position of the woman was not so deplorable, she did not sit all day in her castle, reading the Bible.
And not all the girls who were not married went to the monastery. Someone helped their parents with housework (why lose extra hands?), someone got a profession and worked almost the same as the average man.
As can be seen from these drawings, women of low class had every right to master any craft.
© unknown author/british library
Women worked as scribes, bookbinders, book sellers, brewers, laundresses, even builders, masons and glaziers.
For example, here a woman is painting a portrait.
© unknown author/british library
Preview photo credit unknown author/visseaux, Joffroy D'Aspremont/ngv
Lavender, mountain lavender… | Science and life
This plant does not leave indifferent anyone who has seen it bloom. And in the famous song “Lavender” (music by V. Matetsky, lyrics by M. Shabrov), most likely, the narrow-leaved lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) is mentioned, that is, the one that for many of us (non-professional gardeners) is “just lavender”, without any first name. Gardeners know many varieties of lavender with different colors of flowers - from white to purple. But the corollas of mountain lavender from the song, that is, wild, are still not blue, but a delicate, amazing mixture of lilac and blue. Now this color is called lavender by analogy with cornflower blue, pink, lilac, raspberry and other shades, called "in honor" of plants. nine0005
The readers of the magazine, who visited the Mediterranean countries in the spring, probably came across other types of lavender growing not only on the "wild" coastal rocks, but also in the "cultural" landscape: in wastelands, in old abandoned gardens, or even just along roadsides and even city streets.
Lavender angustifolia. Photo: N. Zell / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0.
Photo: Lori Photobank / PantherMedia.
Stehad lavender. Photo by Maria Sergeeva.
Serrated lavender. Drawing by Maria Sergeeva.
Serrated lavender inflorescence. Photo by Maria Sergeeva.
Multi-cut lavender. Inflorescence with blooming flowers. Photo by Maria Sergeeva.
Multi-cut lavender. Plant leaves. Photo by Maria Sergeeva.
Drawing by Maria Sergeeva.
Carpus lavender. Illustration from The New Herbalist by the German botanist Leonhard Fuchs, 1543.
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In total, more than 20 types of lavender are found along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Sage and very fragrant savory usually grow near their bushes. When you get into such a fragrant realm, it seems that you can drink the air, and not just breathe it.
Lavandula
stoechas is the most widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean.
At the top of its inflorescence - the original "tuft" of bright purple or crimson bracts. For this tuft in Poland, Stehad lavender is called lavender chubata. Small flowers are so dark that they appear black. In fact, their color is dark purple or dark purple. The entire calyx is entangled in fine long hairs, and the narrow leaves resemble the leaves of angustifolia lavender. All lavenders are shrubs and semi-shrubs, but Stahad lavender is a very tall and powerful plant, its bushes can rise 2-3 m from the ground. However, not such giants come across more often, but rather branched plants from 0.5 to 1 m and only occasionally up to 1.5 m in height. Stahad lavender has a very noticeable smell of camphor, so its essential oil is valued lower than the oil of lavender angustifolia. nine0005
The first image of Stehad lavender is in the famous "Code of Constantine the African", and in the "New Herbalist" by the German botanist Leonard Fuchs, drawings of three types of lavender are already placed.
In the Middle Ages, the dried shoots of Stehad lavender were exported to the north, outside the Alps, under the name "Arabian lavender". Another name for it is "French lavender". Since ancient times, this lavender has been used in France in perfumery and as a remedy against moths.
Some resemblance to Stakhad lavender has dentate lavender (Lavandula dentata), but its corollas are of the usual lavender color, and the "tuft" is shorter. This species is easily recognizable by the leaves with even, rounded teeth bent down (hence the name). Lavender jagged is found in Spain, Sicily, Malta. It grows on the edges of mountain forests among shrubs, preferring calcareous soil. The height of the bushes does not exceed 1 m, they are quite branched, with many peduncles and leaves almost to the inflorescence. nine0005
Another species is the multi-cut lavender (Lavandula multifida). Her leaves are not lavender at all, they are strongly dissected, rounded in outline and somewhat reminiscent of wormwood leaves.
A tall, often branched peduncle with almost no leaves, and on a long spike-shaped inflorescence there are usually three to four large light blue or purple flowers. Darker stripes are noticeable on the lower lip of their corollas.
Lavender multicut is common in Spain, Italy, Portugal. It grows not only in the mountains, but also in wastelands, in cities and towns. The smell of this lavender is much weaker than the smell of other species. nine0005
A heat-loving species lives in the western Mediterranean - broad-leaved lavender, or carpal lavender (Lavandula latifolia - L. spica). This plant has a strong aroma and a long peduncle, like angustifolia lavender, but wider, heavily hairy leaves.
In the mountains of Spain, at an altitude of up to 1800 m above sea level, a low shrub grows - woolly lavender (Lavandula lanata.). Its leaves and stems appear almost white from dense pubescence; a thin peduncle crowned with spike-shaped inflorescence with lilac or purple flowers.
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Endemic to the Canary Islands is pinnate lavender (Lavandula pinnata). Found on dry rocky slopes. Low (50-60 cm) bushes are used both in landscaping and for essential oil production. The leaves of the plant are pinnately dissected, but not rounded in outline, like those of multi-cut lavender, but oval and silvery from pubescence. This lavender is also called fern-leaved. At the top of leafless peduncles are small inflorescences with pale purple flowers.
As you can see, all types of lavender are mountain plants that occupy a narrow strip of the Mediterranean coast. They are photophilous, thermophilic, drought-resistant and at the same time quite frost-resistant. Mature plants, not covered with snow, endure temperatures down to -26 9 for a short time.0212 o C.
Lavender was brought to Russia in 1812 in the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, but as an industrial essential oil crop it has been grown since 1930, mainly in the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory.
Lavender angustifolia proved to be the most stable, but in recent years, as a result of crossing lavender angustifolia and broadleaf lavender, hybrids called lavandins have been obtained. The bushes and flowers of lavandin are larger than those of lavender. But, like many other hybrids, they do not produce seeds and reproduce only vegetatively. nine0005
Lavandins provide 2.5% of essential oil for the entire green mass, while its content in ordinary lavender flowers ranges from 1.5 to 2.5%.
Lavender essential oil is widely used in medicine as a strong antiseptic and antispasmodic. It can be applied to the skin and even wounds and burns undiluted. If they are immediately lubricated with burns (including solar ones) or bruises, the pain disappears, and blisters and bruises do not form. A solution of lavender oil in alcohol is also used for neuralgia and rheumatism. And the flowers and leaves of the plant, brewed in the form of tea, are drunk with migraines, neurasthenia and palpitations.
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Lavender oil is used in perfumery and cosmetics. It is part of many men's colognes, has been used since ancient times in the manufacture of soap, which gives it a pleasant smell and disinfectant properties.
Lavender oil is also used in the alcoholic beverage industry, in the production of soft drinks. Lavender flowers, along with juniper twigs, are placed on smoldering sawdust when smoking fish. In Italy, Spain, France, lavender is added to salads, sauces, soups, main dishes of vegetables and lamb. nine0005
From time immemorial to the present day, lavender has been used to repel moths and add a pleasant scent to laundry. Bunches of lavender or special pillows (sachets) with dried herbs are laid out in closets among things or kept under the pillow - they act as a sedative for headaches, nervous excitement, and insomnia.
For cultivation in the garden, lavender is propagated by seeds or vegetatively rooted branches. Seeds are best sown before winter in October-November, as they need stratification.
If this is not possible, they should be put in the refrigerator and kept for at least two months, or sown in a box with earth and buried in the snow until spring. However, the easiest way to get seedlings is to sow seeds in the spring in a box with earth and hold it on a battery (temperature is about 25-30 ° C), then seedlings will appear quickly even without stratification. nine0005
Seeds are sown to a depth of 1-1.5 cm. Shoots are repeatedly weeded. They are transplanted to a permanent place when the bushes reach a height of 10 cm, but do this no later than August. The distance between plants is 40-50 cm. The place should be dry and sunny.
During vegetative propagation in July, the lower part of the bush, where numerous branches diverge, is covered with loose earth approximately 2/3 of the height. In this form, the plant is left until spring, and in the spring the bush is carefully freed from the ground and the rooted branches ready for planting are cut off. Root hairs in lavender dry easily, so it can not be left for a long time with bare roots in the air.
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Heavy acidic soils with high standing groundwater are unsuitable for growing lavender. Lime must be applied before planting so that the soil reaction is slightly alkaline.
Compost, sand or fine gravel should be added to the planting hole to create conditions close to natural. Lavender feels good, especially its young plants, in rock gardens or on warm beds, at the base of which branches and other organic waste are buried. Since loose soil is prepared for lavender and a dry place is chosen, there is a danger that mice can gnaw the roots in winter. To prevent this from happening, in late autumn the plants are covered with coniferous spruce branches or branches with small thorns, like gooseberries. nine0005
Late-planted lavender overwinters badly, the plants do not freeze so much as rot with improper shelter.
Lavender blooms in July-August for the second or third year. For better flowering, its bushes should be fed with mineral fertilizers for berry bushes in the spring.
The flowering tops of the shoots are harvested at the beginning of flowering, when about half of the flowers have blossomed in the inflorescence. Cut flower stalks 10-12 cm long, dry them in the shade, then thresh, throwing out the stems. nine0005
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Lavender in cooking
Lemon muffins with lavender. 8 sprigs of lavender (dried flowers only), 280 g icing sugar, 250 g butter, zest of two lemons, a pinch of salt, 4 eggs, 60 g wheat flour, 180 g almond flour (almonds are crushed in a blender to small pieces), 60 ml lemon juice (2 tablespoons).
Beat lavender flowers, butter, icing sugar, lemon zest and salt until smooth, fluffy, add eggs one at a time, mixing them with 1/4 wheat flour. Carefully fold in the almond flour and the remaining wheat flour, and pour in the lemon juice. Bake cupcakes for 15 minutes at a temperature of 170-180 o C.
Raspberry jam. 1 kg raspberries, 1 kg sugar, 6-8 tsp.
