âOne of the strongest feelings I remember from my childhood is, precisely, of being humiliated; of being knocked about by words, acts, or situations. Isnât it a fact that children are always feeling deeply humiliated in their relations with grown-ups and each other? I have a feeling children spend a good deal of their time humiliating one another. Our whole education is just one long humiliation, and it was even more so when I was a child. One of the wounds Iâve found hardest to bear in my adult life has been the fear of humiliation, and the sense of being humiliated. Every time I read a review, for instance â whether laudatory or not â this feeling awakes. To humiliate and be humiliated, I think, is a crucial element in our whole social structure.â
â Ingmar Bergman; Interviews with Ingmar Bergman by Stig Bjorkman















