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Looking for a literary alternative to some of my doctoral work in psychology, I signed up for a specialty exam with Professor Robert Plank.
As part of the experience, I read his work, “The emotional significance of imaginary beings,” which was accessible and delightful. A beautifully written and somewhat dreamy review of imaginary beings from Shakespeare’s characters in The Tempest to alien abduction stories circulating in the 1950s and 60s, and including analyses of various science fiction movies, it built a vivid and poetic sense of why we seek such creatures.
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