Neil Gaiman’s Coraline – A Wise Child
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Transcript of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline – A Wise Child
Neil Gaiman’s Coraline – A Wise ChildJerome S Blackman, MD, DFAPA, FIPA, FACPsa
Oct 2, 2010
Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Card, Ender’s Game
Bored Coraline
Coraline finds the well
Crazy Old Man’s Mouse Circus
Two old ladies: Washed-up actresses
The magic stone
Hansel und Gretel
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Coraline opens the bricked-in door
Lois Lane needs saving*
• “If anything happened to Lois,” observes Superman wryly in July-August 1942, “I’d have to join the ranks of the unemployed!” (S No. 17/1: “Man or Superman?”)
*http://supermanica.superman.nu/wiki/index.php/Image:Loisindanger.jpg
The Other Mother
Jane Eyre
L’Engle
Coraline’s Identity
• “My name is Coraline.” (Not Caroline)!
Coraline and a lost Soul
Chamberlain declares “peace in our time” after meeting Hitler in Munich
Coraline’s Cat attacks Other Mother
Other Mother’s amputated hand
Arlow: The Only Child’s Fantasy
Cain after killing Abel, with externalized superego
Cinderella’s oedipal resolution
Snow White’s oedipal resolution
Freud’s Wolfman, Sergey Pankejeff
“Low-keyed” (Mahler)
The Other Father
Parental Ambivalence
The Other Neil Gaiman