Soul murder revisited: thoughts about therapy, hate, love, and memory

Fatal gifts.

The smell of semen.

Once is never (or once doesn''t count.

The ring of the narcissist.

Child abuse and the concentration camp.

"That fixed obsession which is a state of love": where Proust and Freud can be both wise and wrong.

Comments on Freud's "A child is being beaten".

Algernon Swinburne: a child who wanted to be beaten.

The moth and the mother: Elizabeth Bishop.

Narcissistic pathology stemming from parental weakness.

Murder, violence, and soul murder: "Did it really happen?" and a note on therapy.