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... simply an intellectual ver- sion of the original fantasy : the loss involved in getting mother sexually as against orally . We can call the joke's meaning a trans- formation analogous to a sublimation , for it makes the unconscious ...
... simply an intellectual ver- sion of the original fantasy : the loss involved in getting mother sexually as against orally . We can call the joke's meaning a trans- formation analogous to a sublimation , for it makes the unconscious ...
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... simply expressed the speaker's emotional state . In Freud's words , " One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly his wishes for happiness - that , accordingly , they are an at- tempt ...
... simply expressed the speaker's emotional state . In Freud's words , " One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly his wishes for happiness - that , accordingly , they are an at- tempt ...
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... simply not literary criticism in any usual sense . It is an attempt to develop a theory about our response to books , to stand both inside and outside that response so as to observe and under- stand it . What should a " theory of ...
... simply not literary criticism in any usual sense . It is an attempt to develop a theory about our response to books , to stand both inside and outside that response so as to observe and under- stand it . What should a " theory of ...
Contents
Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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