Bless the Beasts & Children
“Lally 2 had also dropped his pillow and would not go on without it. They waited for him near the paved highway into town, thanking their lucky stars they still had arms and legs, then swung right and let the animals weave at a drunkard walk along the gravel shoulder of the highway, blowing hard and slobbering.
One morning last autumn Goodenow was gripped by a phobic reaction to school. He could not enter his classroom. His breathing was labored, his state one of extreme fright. Interviewed by t...he principal, he disclosed fear for the safety of his mother, alone at home without him. He was passed on to the school psychologist, who quickly diagnosed the oedipal relationship. When he was four, Gerald's father died, and for eight years he slept with his mother. When he was twelve, his mother married an executive of a machine tool company in Cleveland, an engineer who had adult children of his own. The psychologist recommended therapy for Gerald and both parents. A man too old and preoccupied to be father to a young boy, the stepfather refused, but seen in private the mother revealed major ambivalence, a fragmentation between hostility and love, between the natural needs of a son and a new mate.MoreLess
One morning last autumn Goodenow was gripped by a phobic reaction to school. He could not enter his classroom. His breathing was labored, his state one of extreme fright. Interviewed by t...he principal, he disclosed fear for the safety of his mother, alone at home without him. He was passed on to the school psychologist, who quickly diagnosed the oedipal relationship. When he was four, Gerald's father died, and for eight years he slept with his mother. When he was twelve, his mother married an executive of a machine tool company in Cleveland, an engineer who had adult children of his own. The psychologist recommended therapy for Gerald and both parents. A man too old and preoccupied to be father to a young boy, the stepfather refused, but seen in private the mother revealed major ambivalence, a fragmentation between hostility and love, between the natural needs of a son and a new mate.MoreLess
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