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- From: f012@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
- Subject: Re: Is even the word Post Freudian?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.070420.123100@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 07:04:20 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- >>but you can't forget my personal favorite symbol from the little
- >>mermaid... eric's flute. at the beginning, he's talking about how
- >>the "right woman" hasn't come along [no pun intended], so he's left
- >>there just "playing his own flute." then, at his place, he walking
- >>along feeling depressed, again playing his own flute. then he decides
- >>to start things up with ariel, so he no longer needs to "toot his own
- >>horn," so he throws the flute into the water.
- >
- >OK - time for another split in rec.arts.disney. New group name:
- >rec.arts.disney.little.mermaid.stupid.freudian.references
- >
- >Anyone else surprised at some people's ingenuity in reading all sorts of
- >s**t into a children's film?
- >
- >Tim Pickett
- >
- Hey, it's not hard to do at all. I mean, just from those 2 liens you posted,
- it's clear that you have fantasies about the bathroom habits of childrens, and
- you find it ingenious...
-
- ;)
-
- In serious answer to your question: Yes. Try being an English major. It
- gets worse. However, you also find that some of the time, it's quite real.
- NOT, however, that I beleive for a minute ANY of the theories posted so far
- about TLM. TLM, tho I love it as one of my top 3 fave Disney movies, is not
- in the same class with, for example, Shakespeare. Who, in fact, never
- bothered to "hide" his sexual references very deeply... :)
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