[Sorry for bumping an older thread.]drakan90 wrote:I know this is a bit off-topic, okay, really off-topic, but are the greedy worms really supposed to look so phallic?
I think it must be hard to deny that the Greedy Worms were meant to look somewhat phallic (I say "somewhat"!). And as much as I agree that they may be there 'creating' the holes and / or are another aspect of the umbilical cord symbolism, couldn't they also be representing big purple cocks?
Now I know next to nothing about basic psychology, so do correct me if I'm way off, but didn't Freud talk about something like male children wanting to sleep with their mothers and being jealous of their fathers and that sort of thing? Could the Greedy Worms' phallic looks which appear heaving and thrusting through the various worlds which make up Walter's memories and want for his mother be part of some subconscious sexual desire for his mother, in Freud's sense of it?