Word: motherism
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...year too young--and he has fallen on the battlefield. You could read this as Roth's quasi-Oedipal execution of his younger alter ego, but it plays more like a correction: Wake up, Portnoy, there's a harsh world out there, and it doesn't care whether your mother loves you or not. Marcus has learned, in a way that Portnoy never had to, that his parents were right: The world will devour you if you're not careful. And sometimes even...
...never been much in need of this kind of enlarging. Her work has always been epic in scope. In Beloved, Morrison told the story of Sethe, a woman who murdered her own child rather than see her sold into slavery. Early on in A Mercy, we watch a mother do the opposite--she puts her daughter Florens up for sale: "Please, Senhor. Not me. Take her. Take my daughter." It's a less bloody moment, but in its way it's no less chilling. A Mercy is that daughter's tale...
...five, James Yannatos pointed to a violin in a New York City store window and asked his mother if he could have it. Seventy years and countless performances later, Dr. Yannatos’ lifelong career in music may be ending on a professional level, but it is far from coming to a close...
...awaited psychiatrist's report to prosecutors suggest that personal, rather than societal, causes were behind Fritzl's crimes. Fritzl's actions, the report said, can be partly attributed to the abuse he suffered as a child. "His story describes an unpredictable atmosphere with humiliating and unprovoked attacks from his mother," psychiatrist Adelheid Kastner wrote in her 130-page report. "His childhood made him susceptible to an emotional handicap; [he felt] the need to possess an entire human being." (See photos of Austria's house of horrors...
...lengthy interviews, Fritzl described himself as an "alibi child" who was only conceived so that his mother could prove to her partner that she was not sterile. According to Fritzl's account, she neglected him and subjected him to traumatic experiences like abandonment. During World War II bombing raids, for example, Fritzl's mother would retreat to an air-raid shelter for safety, leaving Fritzl alone in the family home...