Well, Doc...
Thomas Harris, Red Dragon
"Gruesome, isn't it. Tell me the truth, he fumbles at your head like a freshman pulling at a panty girdle, doesn't he? Watched you out of the the corner of his eye. Picked that up, didn't you?"
-- Hannibal Lecter
Dr. Bloom said the Tooth Fairy's acts and his letter indicated a projective delusional scheme which compensated for intolerable feelings of inadequacy. Smashing the mirrors tied these feelings to his appearance.
The killer's objection to the name "Tooth Fairy" was grounded in the homosexual implications of the word "fairy". Bloom believed he had an unconscious homosexual conflict, a terrible fear of being gay. Dr. Bloom's opinion was reinforced by one curious observation at the Leeds house: fold marks and covered bloodstains indicated the Tooth Fairy put on a pair of shorts on Charles Leeds after he was dead. Dr. Bloom believed he did this to emphasize his lack of interest in Leeds.
The psychiatrist talked about the strong bonding of aggressive and sexual drives that occurs in sadists at a very early age.
The savage attacks aimed primarily at the women and performed in the presence of their families were clearly strikes at a maternal figure. Bloom, pacing, talking half to himself, called his subject 'the child of a nightmare'. Crawford's eyelids drooped at the compassion in his voice.
"Gruesome, isn't it. Tell me the truth, he fumbles at your head like a freshman pulling at a panty girdle, doesn't he? Watched you out of the the corner of his eye. Picked that up, didn't you?"
-- Hannibal Lecter
Dr. Bloom said the Tooth Fairy's acts and his letter indicated a projective delusional scheme which compensated for intolerable feelings of inadequacy. Smashing the mirrors tied these feelings to his appearance.
The killer's objection to the name "Tooth Fairy" was grounded in the homosexual implications of the word "fairy". Bloom believed he had an unconscious homosexual conflict, a terrible fear of being gay. Dr. Bloom's opinion was reinforced by one curious observation at the Leeds house: fold marks and covered bloodstains indicated the Tooth Fairy put on a pair of shorts on Charles Leeds after he was dead. Dr. Bloom believed he did this to emphasize his lack of interest in Leeds.
The psychiatrist talked about the strong bonding of aggressive and sexual drives that occurs in sadists at a very early age.
The savage attacks aimed primarily at the women and performed in the presence of their families were clearly strikes at a maternal figure. Bloom, pacing, talking half to himself, called his subject 'the child of a nightmare'. Crawford's eyelids drooped at the compassion in his voice.