Comments on: A Parent in Denial http://www.notfrisco2.com/paxnortona/?p=3130 From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:02:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Lynn http://www.notfrisco2.com/paxnortona/?p=3130&cpage=1#comment-6554 Lynn Mon, 07 Mar 2005 06:27:14 +0000 /?p=3130#comment-6554 I saw the childhood scene in the Aviator as bringing home the emotional force of his germ phobia - this is his level of fear, as if he were forever the child being warned about quarantine. I saw the childhood scene in the Aviator as bringing home the emotional force of his germ phobia – this is his level of fear, as if he were forever the child being warned about quarantine.

]]> By: Joel http://www.notfrisco2.com/paxnortona/?p=3130&cpage=1#comment-6553 Joel Mon, 07 Mar 2005 03:48:24 +0000 /?p=3130#comment-6553 Pam: Thank you. Actually Inman mischaracterizes what Freudianism is all about. Freud specifically ties adult madness to childhood sexual obsession with the parent. I didn't see Freudianism in The Aviator, but a more complex psychodynamic involving a mixture of experience, "self-talk", and chemical imbalance. Inman seemed too eager to abandon early childhood experience all together. In my book, that makes her suspect. Pam: Thank you. Actually Inman mischaracterizes what Freudianism is all about. Freud specifically ties adult madness to childhood sexual obsession with the parent.

I didn’t see Freudianism in The Aviator, but a more complex psychodynamic involving a mixture of experience, “self-talk”, and chemical imbalance. Inman seemed too eager to abandon early childhood experience all together. In my book, that makes her suspect.

]]> By: Pam http://www.notfrisco2.com/paxnortona/?p=3130&cpage=1#comment-6552 Pam Mon, 07 Mar 2005 01:50:42 +0000 /?p=3130#comment-6552 Joel, thank you for your writing on this subject. It helps me understand a little better what my sister might have been going through with her own issues and how things might have turned out differently for her. There's nothing I can do to change the past, but the insight helps me come to terms with it. Joel, thank you for your writing on this subject. It helps me understand a little better what my sister might have been going through with her own issues and how things might have turned out differently for her. There’s nothing I can do to change the past, but the insight helps me come to terms with it.

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