The "wound" in children amounts to a trauma and the belief system arises around it (as a self-protection device). This creates a strong "neurotic need" for "validation," and the developmental arrest arising from a child's "magic thinking" creates a number of "cognitive styles" that are essentially immature and foster dependency rather than self individuation.
The deeper and "earlier" the wound, the more it forms the basis for unconscious behavioral patterns that bedevil all of us...
"A memory of wounds can give us an identity and a sense of connection with the past. This solidarity is powerful, and it can be politically useful, particularly in a democracy where mobilizing a segment of the population can easily change the outcome of an election. And so we see demagogues manufacturing the memory of wounds, implanting the idea that something precious has been taken away so that they might ride the politics of resentment into power."