Tag: Psychoanalysis

They’re Not Metaphorical Demons: Mariana Enriquez and Magalí Armillas-Tisyera

Hosted by: Chris Holmes

“As a trope in horror, the mean child is always very scary. I think it's because if a child is bad, is mean, is evil, because evil is just the word, there's two reasons for him to be evil. One: huge damage beyond everything. So he can only react with evil. And the other thing is that he was born evil, which is kind of like a demonic situation. And it kind of puts upside down all our notions of purity, innocence, violence, children, etc.”

The House That Form Built

Across the slatted border between the United States and Mexico, near Ciudad Juárez, the artists Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello recently installed several ...

“The Sandman” @200

In 1816, only four years after the Brothers Grimm brought out a collection of fairy tales carefully selected and edited for the use of children, E. T. A. Hoffmann published his “Nutcracker and Mouse ...

Primal Scenes

This past year, Yoplait began airing a commercial, entitled “Mmm,” which features a family—a man, woman, and two children—eating yogurt, producing a chorus of “Mmms” as they ingest. The mother emits ...

When the Past is Past

Set sometime in the early 1950s, Toni Morrison’s latest work of fiction centers on a 24-year-old black veteran of the Korean War named Frank Money, recently returned from the frontlines and showing ...

The Mom Problem

For hard-core fans of Alison Bechdel’s 2006 graphic memoir Fun Home—and we are legion—the publication of its follow-up, Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, was a major event ...