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• A girl's best friend is her mother: the Exorcist as a post-modern oedipal tale

  Author:Allison M. KellyFrom:Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (Vol. 25, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewed

  Mar. 20042,565 words Critical essay While teaching The Exorcist to a group of high-school seniors in 2001, I began our class discussion by asking, "Why does Regan only kill men?" One student blithely replied, "Because she's got an oedipal thing." We had...