Category: Text Analysis
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The Rise of Hentai in America, Part 1
(This paper was done in 2006 for a women’s studies course at Ohio State University. Some of the facts may be a bit outdated, some have been updated, but I still stand by the interpretation of the texts. Part 1 here discusses the subject matter; Part 2 compares hentai to live action pornography; Part 3…
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Singin’ About a Simulacrum
(From a 2007 class assignment) I can remember rather vividly when I first saw Singin’ in the Rain. Gene Kelly had just passed away and my father was aghast that we had never seen what he considered the best musical of all time. And while I still have favorites that supersede this musical, Singin’ in…
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Visions of the Unconscious: An Analysis of “Juliet of the Spirits”
Did Sigmund Freud realize the impact he would have when he first proposed the idea of the unconscious mind as a reservoir for a person’s dreams, memories and thoughts that may be too violent or too sexually explicit for the conscious mind to handle? When he wrote about the animalistic id battling the angelic superego…
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