Alien: Abjection and the Dark Feminine
The Whole Rabbit
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The Ego and the Flame Thrower
The big idea is that from a larger perspective, alien and all sufficiently tantalizing horror has the capacity to allow the audience to indulge. After all, it was CG Young who said, one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. So in short, we might say the darkness we want to make conscious is the stuff our ego rejects identification with for the sake of its own survival. This is like simple enough to understand, but when we give the idea of libido affair chance, it comes into better focus. I always thought there were illustrations. Yeah, that's all you had back then. Okay. So what's next? Oh, I got
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