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Page 38
... child , when he is older , may imag- ine that the conception of children somehow takes place through eating ( as in certain Melanesian myths ) , or that birth takes place through the child's emerging from the mouth ( as in some creation ...
... child , when he is older , may imag- ine that the conception of children somehow takes place through eating ( as in certain Melanesian myths ) , or that birth takes place through the child's emerging from the mouth ( as in some creation ...
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... child's growing wish to control and master its own impulses . Still further , at this time , the first moral ( if I may call them that ) demands are made upon the child . He begins to be told not to do things ; he begins to be trained ...
... child's growing wish to control and master its own impulses . Still further , at this time , the first moral ( if I may call them that ) demands are made upon the child . He begins to be told not to do things ; he begins to be trained ...
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... children , and of dreams . There is still a third way these films take us back to the child's frame of mind : in sexuality . The child's dim awareness of adult sexuality very much resembles the sexuality of the puzzling movies . He can ...
... children , and of dreams . There is still a third way these films take us back to the child's frame of mind : in sexuality . The child's dim awareness of adult sexuality very much resembles the sexuality of the puzzling movies . He can ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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