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Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics

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The End of Sopranos

Sally Kohn: People fundamentally don't know how to handle a ser-, I mean, Freud wrote about this, studies on hysteria, like, the end is just traumatic. With Star Wars, that's just an end, and if that was, there were no more Avengers movies, it would have changed completely," she says. "Battlestar Galactica" lost anything that induces an ending with sort of psychic trauma, or in some kind of confrontation."

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