[mythistorian]

Hi Marianne,

I regret I must be brief for now but I love your suggestions and insights—I never thought of relating “sacred” to “scared,” that’s kind of a brilliant move. These “word scrambles” are exactly like the ones Freud also loved, clearly taking advantage of a linguistic perspective into the depths of the unconscious, and effectively vindicating the Lacanian motto: “the unconscious is structured like a language.” You are so on the beam on this!

Also couldn’t agree more on the “life-in-death,” “death-in-life” perspective—like the concept of the “undead”— very nicely shows the dialectical inter-relation or interplay between love and death in the psychoanalytical view.