Caregiving and Karl Marx
Have had a couple of dreams involving my brother.
Mainly someone else will be talking about caring for their baby, and my mum will pipe up ' what about Craig', in the other one Dad is telling a group of people what my brother 'can do'.
So was pondering about these dreams and the underlying issue that must be bothering me.
A friend's sibling (with her baby) came in- and the first thing she said, looking at my flatmates tv, "Is it mine,"
I know she was just teasing but her attitude really annoyed me. Assuming she can take other people's stuff as her own. Which led me to think about Karl Marx and him saying about how much we identify more with objects than with other people.Which is the basis of all advertising campaigns.
And also he mentioned how the needs of the 'weak' overriding the needs of the 'strong'- generally ending up in predominately women putting the needs of others before themselves.
Yet there is also a certain amount of identifying with people that occurs as a mother/caregiver- they project assumptions about the weakness/vulnerability of child/baby.
Which ends up in the cared for person being overvalued and the main caregiver being undervalued. Esp, all the slogans about how the 'child', 'baby' comes first- as if an adults needs are unimportant. Is there away to rectify this unfair equation- a way of caregiving where the caregivers needs are not overlooked and undervalued?
Mainly someone else will be talking about caring for their baby, and my mum will pipe up ' what about Craig', in the other one Dad is telling a group of people what my brother 'can do'.
So was pondering about these dreams and the underlying issue that must be bothering me.
A friend's sibling (with her baby) came in- and the first thing she said, looking at my flatmates tv, "Is it mine,"
I know she was just teasing but her attitude really annoyed me. Assuming she can take other people's stuff as her own. Which led me to think about Karl Marx and him saying about how much we identify more with objects than with other people.Which is the basis of all advertising campaigns.
And also he mentioned how the needs of the 'weak' overriding the needs of the 'strong'- generally ending up in predominately women putting the needs of others before themselves.
Yet there is also a certain amount of identifying with people that occurs as a mother/caregiver- they project assumptions about the weakness/vulnerability of child/baby.
Which ends up in the cared for person being overvalued and the main caregiver being undervalued. Esp, all the slogans about how the 'child', 'baby' comes first- as if an adults needs are unimportant. Is there away to rectify this unfair equation- a way of caregiving where the caregivers needs are not overlooked and undervalued?