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Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatural tale. 'There is no need today to resort to the devil [or to posthumous reverie] in order to speak of excessive sexual desire, and none to resort to vampires in order to designate the attraction exerted by corpses: psychoanalysis, and the literature which is directly or indirectly inspired by it, deal with these matters in undisguised terms. The themes of fantastic literature have become, literally, the very themes of the psychological investigations of the last fifty years. ↗

— Howard Kerr

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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

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This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. ↗

— Alan Price

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They were all famous and fantastic fellows. ↗

— Peter Scott

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I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic. ↗

— Leslie Caron

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My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky. ↗

— Cher

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The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will. ↗

— Sean Connery

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I've been amazed that it's so popular with people. But it's been fantastic. People are very excited when I walk into a place and they recognize me from the series. ↗

— Victor Garber

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How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

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