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Page 39
... moral imperative comes in the field of toilet training : some psychoanalyst with a happy gift for phrase has called it " sphincter morality . " The question of holding onto or giving up this part of his body becomes of paramount ...
... moral imperative comes in the field of toilet training : some psychoanalyst with a happy gift for phrase has called it " sphincter morality . " The question of holding onto or giving up this part of his body becomes of paramount ...
Page 167
... moral " message . " This dis- placement from moral message to intellectual meaning is itself a source of pleasure in the puzzling movie , particularly for the intel- lectuals to whom the puzzling movie makes its chief appeal . After all ...
... moral " message . " This dis- placement from moral message to intellectual meaning is itself a source of pleasure in the puzzling movie , particularly for the intel- lectuals to whom the puzzling movie makes its chief appeal . After all ...
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... moral effect . First , literature may reinforce or counter the defenses and adaptations our culture builds into us . Second , litera- ture lets us experience those and other values in a more open , " as if " way ; it breaks down - for a ...
... moral effect . First , literature may reinforce or counter the defenses and adaptations our culture builds into us . Second , litera- ture lets us experience those and other values in a more open , " as if " way ; it breaks down - for a ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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