Paging Dr. Freud (was:Re: Of Sorting and Snape)

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Betsy HP:

> I'm going to say that Gryffindor tower represtents 
> Hogwarts' penis and the Slytherin dungeon is Hogwarts' 
> vagina. I think much can be made of the robust, vibrant 
> tower and the cold, dark dungeon. And of course, 
> Gryffindor is all about the wand (with Harry getting 
> the biggest, baddest wand in the end) and Slytherin is 
> all about the cauldron (which helps our hero barely at all).

houyhnhnm:

Except for Expelliarmus(symbolic castration), Harry's 
signature spell, which he learned from Snape. Hmmm

Have you read "Harry Potter's Oedipal Issues"?
http://human-nature.com/free-associations/harrypotter.html

A tidbit:

The main characters of the Harry Potter books, then, 
allow the reader to enjoy a phantasy which denies the 
reality of the Oedipal configuration. What we have here 
is not an Oedipal triangle, but a phantasised and fragile 
triangular situation: in one corner, Harry, the hero 
(our ego); in another, Harry's good, dead parents, who 
live on, through introjection, in Harry (our phantasy 
of ideal parents); and, in the third, the evil Lord 
Voldemort, his adult self the repository for the 
split-off bad parts of Harry's perfect parents, his 
boyhood self a repository for similar parts of Harry.