[HPforGrownups] Harry Potter: Oedipus Redux?

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At 09:51 AM 7/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
>This is in today's National Post (Canada) newspaper.  Comments
>anyone?
>
>HARRY POTTER ARTICLE
>
>Harry Potter appeals to the masses because it satisfies our
>subconscious Oedipal fantasies, says a British study. The popular
>children's books represent the fulfillment of readers' suppressed
>Freudian desires to kill their father to be closer to their mother,
>according to the study published in the summer issue of the journal
>Psychoanalytic Studies.

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Yeah, i've got a comment.    It's utter nonsense =p    If that were the 
case, the same could be said of ANY story that features an 
orphan.    Superman, for example- his parents both died when the planet 
krypton exploded- is THAT also an appeal to Oedipal fantasies?


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