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The House of Incest

Otto Rank

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Nigel Bruce

Jul 31, 2023
Otto Rank
Otto Rank is top left; Freud is bottom left (1922). Photo: U.S. Library of Congress.
Otto Rank
Modern poisoners, food tasters and their victims: who survived and who didn't...

Modern poisoners, food tasters and their victims: who survived and who didn't...

Last month, a journalist who exposed President Vladimir Putin’s secret relationship with an Olympic gymnast in 2008, died in Riga, reportedly after eating poisonous "false" honey mushrooms that he had foraged near his house. Was it an accident or a murder? Grigory Nekhoroshev, 69, had been living
Jul 4, 2026 3 min read
The hexagrams of the 'I-Ching' and American visionaries

The hexagrams of the 'I-Ching' and American visionaries

The I-Ching hexagrams (6-line figures made up of two trigrams) and their matching Chinese characters are catnip to anyone interested in storytelling and the art of juxtaposition (more here). The first somewhat reliable English translation of the I-Ching was by the Scottish missionary James Legge in 1882,
Jul 4, 2026 3 min read
Precious Bodily Fluids - Timeline

Precious Bodily Fluids - Timeline

1516 Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando) published in Ferrara 1545 Beatriz Bernal's Cristalián de España published anonymously in Valladolid 1553 Death of Rabelais 1554 Matteo Bandello’s novella Giulietta e Romeo published in Lucca 1555 Peace of Augsburg protected Lutheran rights in Germany
Jul 4, 2026 2 min read
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  • A Tale of Two Women
  • The Age of Consent
  • Alice's Mirrors
  • Angel Incarnate
  • Beauty & the Beast
  • Dreaming of the Virgin Mary
  • From Russia with Love
  • Homer's Women
  • The House of Incest
  • How to Look at a Naked Lady
  • Immortal Beloved
  • The Judgment of Paris
  • Kama Sutra
  • Letters from Africa
  • Life as Opera
  • Loki's Children
  • Oz is China
  • Poison Pen Letters
  • Precious Bodily Fluids
  • Sacred Prostitute
  • Spinster
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice
  • Splendour in the Grass
  • The Town Square
  • Vampires in Venice
  • Voices and Saints
  • The Whore's Revenge
  • The Woman in the Bower
  • Women in Trousers
  • About the Author
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