"There is a place in men's lives where……" — Leslie Fiedler

There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact… - Leslie Fiedler

"There is a place in men's lives where pictures do in fact bleed, ghosts gibber and shriek, maidens run forever through mysterious landscapes from nameless foes; that place is, of course, the world of dreams and of the repressed guilts and fears that motivate them [i.e., the unconscious]. This world the dogmatic optimism and shallow psychology of the Age of Reason had denied; and yet this world it is the final, perhaps the essential, purpose of the gothic romance to assert."

— Leslie Fiedler

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