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The Landlady - Coggle Diagram
The Landlady
Roald Dahl
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flew fighter planes in WW2, became commander
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working with Ian Fleming - James Bond, both became special spies on the orders of Churchill to destroy isolationist movement in US + shape political relations
Story:
"Bell and the Dragon" 
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Jewish hero Daniel refuses to worship the god Bel and kills the dragon, thus being forced into a den of lions
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His enemies, advocates of idolatry, are later cast into the lions’ den and devoured.
Setting
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Pub - bust, socially more vibrant
B+B, familiar or strange?
Compulsion
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"compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was"
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whose desire does the story focus on -protagonist (son role) Billy, or landlady (mother role)
Jacques Lacan, the mother is a overwhelming, all-engulfing force, which threatens to “devour” the child.
child needs to become detached from the mother. The child’s failure to separate from the mother can result in phobia or perversion
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signatures, naming, inscriptions - the guest book
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"The Uncanny"
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shaped modernism - psychoanalysis, literature based
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analysis of german language - heimlich - native, but also hidden, unheimlich opposite -uncanny
revelation of something that was meant to stay hidden, bringing secrets of the unconscious mind to light
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Uncanny is in reality nothing new or alien, but something which is familiar and old-established in the mind and which has become alienated from it only through the process of repression.
Freud jokes:
For Freud’s jokes, as relational forms of humor, emerged when the conscious allowed the expression of thoughts that society usually suppressed or forbade
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