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Date Posted: 21:25:24 03/03/08 Mon
Author: CS Holden
Subject: Re: The "mother hen" in movies
In reply to: JD 's message, "The "mother hen" in movies" on 16:49:30 03/02/08 Sun

Your observation interests me. In many ways, the mother hen mechanism (?) is the parenting mechanism, by which every parent immediately becomes their child's strongest and most intimate model. Even the act of protecting can be imitated--children play house all the time, and in particular little girls tend to play nurse or mom to children younger than them. And how many times does a protagonist, after dealing out some harsh discipline to his or her kid, stop and realize: Oh my God, I've become my mom/dad!

I wonder sometimes why Girard doesn't talk more about the institution of family, either as an institution of mimesis or, as you have observed with the "mother hen" stereotype, as an institution of prohibition. Or maybe he does talk about it, and I've just forgotten or missed it.

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