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... adult thinking grows . Even in adult life , as dreams clearly show , unconscious in- fantile fantasies provide the force behind mature , conscious wishes . That , then , is the special and wonderful thing about literature : it does for ...
... adult thinking grows . Even in adult life , as dreams clearly show , unconscious in- fantile fantasies provide the force behind mature , conscious wishes . That , then , is the special and wonderful thing about literature : it does for ...
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... adult life , the life of the parent - in - me , is like the slowest , most helpless progress of a child in creeping and syllables that an adult can imagine . The passage lets me feel in two different ways that adult life is not violent ...
... adult life , the life of the parent - in - me , is like the slowest , most helpless progress of a child in creeping and syllables that an adult can imagine . The passage lets me feel in two different ways that adult life is not violent ...
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... adult world finds a focus for itself in his uncer- tainty , arousal , and fear at this particular area of adult life— sexuality . It serves as a nucleus for his total puzzlement at adult emotions and actions , just as the sexuality in ...
... adult world finds a focus for itself in his uncer- tainty , arousal , and fear at this particular area of adult life— sexuality . It serves as a nucleus for his total puzzlement at adult emotions and actions , just as the sexuality in ...
Contents
Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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