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"Now, Rosalie is found here, her 'body quite warm,' stuffed head downward in the
fireplace of the bedroom, just like the infant in the maternal genitals before birth,
by the powerful arm of the anthropoid. The bedroom was the body of the mother, the
fireplace, according to an equally common symbalism, is her vagina-- or rather her cloaca,
the cloaca alone corresponding to the infantile sexual theories which survive in
the unconscious." Bonaparte, pp. 548-49. [TN. A curious mistake here. The daughter
in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is named Camille, not Rosalie. ]
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