Thursday, 11 September 2008

Ambivalent points on the start of fear

I think my mother scared me when I was 3 months old. She said ‘boo’. It gave me the hiccups and she apparently must have been very satisfied. All mothers do it, you know! That’s how fear starts in everyone. Weren’t you ever booed at by your mother?

Alfred Hitchcock on the start of fear in an interview with Dick Cavett

PS. Any ideas?

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