Weiss, Daniel. “Freudian Criticism: Frank O’Connor as Paradigm.” Northwest Review 2,2 (1959): 5-14.
Excerpt reprinted in Short Story Criticism 5 (1990): 368-9.
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“It is obvious that in this story O’Connor is playing with some very simple counters, very conscious of the comic possibilities of Freud considered along broad, almost slapstick lines.”
About Freudian theory: “After a certain point the child consciously realizes that his mother cannot become, for many reasons (because the father has, after all, prior claims and threatens to maintain them, because the mother herself rejects him, and because society frowns on it) an object of his sexual love in reality.”
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