VL[8]: Frenesi the Unredeemable? Long

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Mon Jan 25 15:17:37 CST 1999


Sorry for muddling the anima/persona/shadow bit which Keith set
straight. The anima reference was right in plain sight in the current
chapter on p 274. " . . . Brock, of medium height, slender and
fair-haired, carried with him a watchful, never quite trustworthy
companion personality, feminine, underdeveloped, against whom his male
version, supposedly running the unit, had to be equally vigilant. In
dreams he could not control, in which lucid intervention was imposssible,
dreams that couldn't be denatured by drugs or alcohol, he was visited
by his uneasy anima in a number of guises, notably as the Madwoman in the
Attic." 

			P.




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