Take a load off Fanny or Takeshi, Childhood & Thanatoid Society

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Remember One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest? The Book? No? How about the
movie? Remember Martini (Danny De Vito)? No? He's playing Monopoly.  He
puts the game pieces in his mouth. McMurphy has a lot of patience with
Martini. Martini, like all the other boyz on the ward, hasn't quite
grown up. 

Ortho Bob never grew up. 

In his Slow Learner Introduction P talks about the American Male never
quite growing up. 
It's an important theme in his novels. 

In VL, Weber and Freud and Jung and all the others he tapped for his
previous novels, Norman O Brown, Marcuse, etc., are all left on the
shelf. In VL, as has been noted by his better critics, Erikson is the
man. 

Fanny, one of Alfred Kroeber's oldest informants, called herself, and
was called by others, a "doctor." So far as she treated somatic
disorders or used the Yurok brand of physiological treatment, I could
not claim to be her professional equal. However, she also did
psychotherapy with children, and in this field it was possible to
exchange notes.