Word: freudianly
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...goal is not so much to build one grand argument but rather, she says, to "make the books stories in their own right." Nevertheless, a feminist, anti-Freudian thread runs throughout her work. Unlike Bruno Bettelheim, whose classic work The Uses of Enchantment puts a Freudian gloss on fairy tales, Warner believes the stories "represent a way of thinking about problems, particularly family problems: intimacy, sexuality and practical areas like money, dowries, property and hierarchy--who has the power to free women from their poverty?" In her new book she examines the way fear and pleasure have become intertwined...
...Times Literary Supplement attacked him for allowing theories that have been discarded by other disciplines, such as Freudian analysis, to be considered legitimate in the study of literature. By that reasoning, the letter claimed, the flat earth theory could also be useful to literary scholars...
Chaouli's critics have not taken kindly to his ideas. A recent letter to the Times Literary Supplement attacked him for allowing theories that have been discarded by other disciplines, such as Freudian analysis, to be considered legitimate in the study of literature. By that reasoning, the letter claimed, the flat earth theory could also be useful to literary scholars...
...weeks, and he can't afford to appear weak. He needs a quick cure. Ben takes the case-how can he say no to the man with the hired guns? and thus begins a wild romp that shifts rapidly between the genres of "parodistic mobster movie" and "canned Freudian soup...
Codrescu is certainly amusing at times. Typically, he manages to find "carroty orange baby penises" in an airplane meal. Yet his obsession with breasts and genitalia often seems out of place, almost like a forced concession to the Freudian tradition and by no means necessitated by the logic of the text...