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protestalways. with one more thing to say. Sometimes her final
utterance isalmost orgasmic. in nature so that the mock puppet death we
arewitnessing might more. closely resemble 'le petit mort' rather
thanactual mortality.When she. returns to discover that Mr Punch has
inadvertently (in true'ignorant. simpleton' style) made the baby into
sausages she is as anywoman would be at. first distraught and then
angry. However havingfully expressed her grief and. given Mr Punch a
piece of her mind shequickly moves into acceptance and. realises this is
her opportunityfor freedom Well now Mr Punch You made. the baby
sausages so youcan look after the baby sausages That's fair I'm. going
to claim theinsurance money and take a nice little holiday in. Majorca.
No youcan't come with me. You're to stay at home and look after the.
littlesausage.And off she goes leaving Mr Punch and the sausages to the
mercy. of abig green crocodile with toothfilled gaping jaws. Her
triumph is thatshe. has called Mr. Punch's bluff. Rather than waiting to
be knockedout of his. way Judy leaves him with the consequences of
his mistakesand removes herself. to a more fulfilling situation. She does
theseparating off. This gives Judy. an equal status to Punch in the
dramaalthough he still remains at the centre. of the story and fulfills
hisusual trickster role with his other. adversities.Adult enthusiasts can
recognize him as the head of one of. thosedysfunctional families of
Drama that span from Oedipus and Macbeth onthe. tragic side to the
Addams Family and The Simpsons on the frivolousside. He. and other
little red nosed rogues like him have been keptalive down the. centuries
because his irrepressible antics and hisflying in the face of. convention
have amused generations of ordinarypeople particularly those with. no
power of their own.Step warily around the fair Welsh seaside town of.
Aberystwyth thisweekend for everywhere you look will be a strange
beaknosed. figureclad in red with pointytoed shoes and a manic gleam
in his. immobileeyes. No it's not Beelzebub it's Punch. The second.
internationalfestival of Punch and Judy is in town. Oh no it isn't. Oh
yes it. isetc. There was an Old Man with a nose Who said If you choose
to. suppose That my nose is too long You are certainly wrong That.
remarkable man with a nose.A Jungian Consideration of Edward Lear's
Nonsense. Verse Lear was inmany ways an example of what Jungian
psychologist. MarieLouise vonFranz calls the puer aeternusan
archetype she analyzes in her. book ofthe same name. The term comes
from Ovid's Metamorphoses and. thererefers to the childgod of the
Eleusinian mysteries. In later timesvon. Franz writes the childgod was
identified with Dionysus and the god. Eros. He is the divine youth who
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