Neil Gaiman’s Coraline – A Wise ChildJerome S Blackman, MD, DFAPA, FIPA, FACPsa

Oct 2, 2010

Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

Card, Ender’s Game

Bored Coraline

Coraline finds the well

Crazy Old Man’s Mouse Circus

Two old ladies: Washed-up actresses

The magic stone

Hansel und Gretel

The Creation of Simbahttp://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1027&bih=1001&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=simba+stampede&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Coraline opens the bricked-in door

Lois Lane needs saving*

• “If anything happened to Lois,” observes Superman wryly in July-August 1942, “I’d have to join the ranks of the unemployed!” (S No. 17/1: “Man or Superman?”)

*http://supermanica.superman.nu/wiki/index.php/Image:Loisindanger.jpg

The Other Mother

Jane Eyre

L’Engle

Coraline’s Identity

• “My name is Coraline.” (Not Caroline)!

Coraline and a lost Soul

Chamberlain declares “peace in our time” after meeting Hitler in Munich

Coraline’s Cat attacks Other Mother

Other Mother’s amputated hand

Arlow: The Only Child’s Fantasy

Cain after killing Abel, with externalized superego

Cinderella’s oedipal resolution

Snow White’s oedipal resolution

Freud’s Wolfman, Sergey Pankejeff

“Low-keyed” (Mahler)

The Other Father

Parental Ambivalence

The Other Neil Gaiman