In the course of history there was not one period without human abuse. The only change is the external manifestation of the tendency of the individual to fill the gulf of psychological pain by causing harm to the other. The abused always finds somebody to abuse, and sometimes (s)he plays both roles at the same time. Flisar authentically paints the circle of abuse in the family, which is also described in technical psychological literature: a person with an irrational compulsive sexual desire, which pushes him into dependency and abuse, a woman dependent on that person, and a child on whose psyche these two people impose their own fears. Of a particular literary-theoretical interest is the unique perspective of the narrative: the reader follows the action through naive son's eyes, following reality, dreams, and "dreams", while the specific author's approach allows the reader to know and see more than the main character who is telling the story. The difference between the effect that the literary and technical treatments of this subject have on the reader is also interesting, and in relation to that the question, why the readers in their search of "higher knowledge" do not immerse themselves in the artistic, rather than in the popularized psychological literature.
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