On the 21st, I woke well, bid adieu, and called with a friend about fairytales, psychoanalysis and transference. My dear returned, I put out a video, and we had some excellent dorados.
Then went to the Philosophical research society, where my intuitions from April 3rd, on the word “Urchin” were confirmed. I had watched Jean Painlevé’s L’Oursin, and was struck by the word. Looked a bit into the etymology at that time, that it’s derived from Hedgehogs, I associated it with “Ursine” as relating to bears, but felt the descriptor for bad children must have more depth, so I sat on it.
At the PRS I read Keightley’s book on fairies and found in fact Urchin was a term used for fairies! Thus the connection to wandering children.
I read about Puck, Robin Goodfellow, the fairy attendants at King Arthur’s birth, and the identification of Titania, Queen of Fairies with Diana, Goddess of the Moon.
I considered the Freudian aspects of fairies and satyrs, the “things that go bump in the night” which are of course, human bodies. But how does one explain this to children? And ultimately, how do we tell the truth about the strange, biological compulsions we all act out? Through stories!
I thought upon the Primal Scene (when a child first witnesses sex) and the phenomena of “seeing Pan”. The horror and terror of biology and instinct.