“[Surrealistic] art offers access to reassurance on a different level of understanding.” Continue reading
Category Archives: The Arts
Bump in the night: The Babadook and what I think it represents
“The Babadook itself could be seen as a Freudian-like representation –an embodiment of the grief that haunts Amelia and Samuel…” Continue reading
Med students learn psychopathology with ‘Seinfeld’
(Feature image: Still of Julia Louis-Dreyfus in NBC’s Seinfeld) By Billy Wright It seems the whole universe truly is against George Costanza. Jerry, Elaine, his Mother and that girl who saw him in the Henry VIII costume have each tried to coax George into psychiatric treatment, yet he resists. But resistance is futile, transcendentally, when psychiatric … Continue reading
Patrick Bateman of American Psycho: A sexual profile
“This hyper-masculinity controls the narrative of the story; the sex Bateman has, the violence he commits, the clothes he wears, the job he has, are all told through a male vernacular of the time and place he’s from..” Continue reading
