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“A Child Is Being Beaten (I Am Looking On)”: The Beating Fantasy, Spectatorship, and Female Sadism
This chapter draws upon psychoanalytic theory to attempt to discover reasons for the particular treatment, or lack thereof, the Homolka case received from mainstream and feminist legal and media discourses. Psychoanalysis seems most apposite to the study of this case as several of the narrations of the behaviour of Karla Homolka echo Freud’s articulation of […]