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The acculturation of children, in Douglas Milburn's startling analysis of the mythic reality of childhod, is the most pervasive and violent of civilized acts. So limiting to our seemingly infitinite potential is the act of child-rearing that Milburn sees it as a kind of filicide: the psychic murder of children, carried out, tragically, with the best of intentions. To support this disturbing thesis, Milburn re-examines a number of the most dominant myths of the Western world--Oedipus, Abraham, Jesus, Hamlet, Faust, and Frankenstein--from the child's point-of-view. Such a perspective yields astonishing results, turning received interpretations of the old stories on their heads.
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