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Breast Coast

Weaning and whining with Snacks the cat The latest fine idea to be targeted by Sarah Palin’s hunting rifle of righteous indignation, in her customary enthusiastic and ignorant fashion, is that of Michelle Obama’s plan to award tax breaks to … Continue reading

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Hand in Unloveable Hand

Freud’s Death Drive and The Mountain Goats A key concept in psychoanalysis is the innate human drive towards self-destruction. Freud wrote about this unconscious instinct towards annihilation and death as an opposing force to the drive for life and growth. … Continue reading

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We’ll eat you up we love you so

A psychoanalytic reading of the theme of cannibalism in the parent-child relationship, with reference to Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and The King of Carrot Flowers (Part 1) by Neutral … Continue reading

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