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... unconscious meanings ( " toothless mouth " as genitals ) , are all relevant to a particular unconscious fantasy : being nurtured by a mother as against making love to her . The joke's meaning , then , is not simply a " point " which a ...
... unconscious meanings ( " toothless mouth " as genitals ) , are all relevant to a particular unconscious fantasy : being nurtured by a mother as against making love to her . The joke's meaning , then , is not simply a " point " which a ...
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... unconscious , just as in figures of speech , anything can serve in a simile , the trope that corresponds to the psychological process of symbolization . Symbolization lends itself to sublimation , the changing of a for- bidden impulse ...
... unconscious , just as in figures of speech , anything can serve in a simile , the trope that corresponds to the psychological process of symbolization . Symbolization lends itself to sublimation , the changing of a for- bidden impulse ...
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... unconscious level , there is a wish - fulfilling reversal : nights just come and go . The tense , terrible sexual imaginings of the night , the sound and fury , the strutting of the parent , these are just that , imaginings and those ...
... unconscious level , there is a wish - fulfilling reversal : nights just come and go . The tense , terrible sexual imaginings of the night , the sound and fury , the strutting of the parent , these are just that , imaginings and those ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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