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St. Clair: Psychoanalysis by Sonia, Poesy, Ashley, Mahawa, Nathan, Maya,…

- - - - "And I want to tell her this: We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others" (Tan 19). -Sonia
    - - "I had become quite thin. I had stopped eating, not because of Arnold, whom I had long forgotten, but to be fashionably anorexic like all the other thirteen-year-old girls" (Tan 4). -Sonia
  - - - "Perhaps he was destined to be my husband. Because I think to myself, even today, how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?" (Tan 5).
        -Sonia
- - - - "Yet today I can remember a time when I ran and shouted, when I could not stand still. It is my earliest recollection: telling the Moon Lady my secret wish" (Tan 19).
        
        Ying-ying represses an early childhood memory of herself freely running around, when she still knew what she really wanted and before she "lost herself." Selective memory may have cut this out of her memory for a long time.
        
        In the end it seems that Ying-ying's memory was repressed and selected because of a traumatic event in her childhood.
        
        Nathan and Sonia