A Psychoanalytic Reading of A Monster Calls: Biblical Congruencies and Theological Implications
This essay offers a psychoanalytic reading of Patrick Ness's A Monster Calls, an award-winning novel (which recently has been made into a film) about a 13-year-old boy whose mother is dying of cancer. I use Sigmund Freud's 'On Dreams' to interpret several scenes from the novel, i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2017]
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 6, Pages: 759-777 |
| RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Fred Rogers B Wishes B EMOTIONS (Psychology) B Dreams B Ambivalence B NESS, Patrick, 1971- B Sigmund Freud B Psychoanalysis B FICTION & psychology B Patrick Ness B Stories B MONSTER Calls, A (Book) B Cancer |
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