... as it does from uncontrollable and often unimaginable intensities. The repression causes anxiety, discomfort, even neurosis; the emetic release causes massive emotional and often physical damage. In the acclaimed novel Madame Bovary by Gaustave Flaubert, the main character Emma, was brought up in a convent with nuns which had very strict rules. Once a week the woman who cleaned the convent came to do ... "taboo" it lit a fire so to speak, it burned slowly for a while she dreamed of having lovers and of a man to sweep her off of her feet. She married Charles Bovary, a boring doctor who d...

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