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Rumpelstilskin's Revenge On The Importance Of Proper Names In Psychoanalysis

Dany Nobus

Issue 9 — Spring 1997

84–101

In the final chapter of Colin Dexter's Death is now my Neighbour, Chief Inspector Morse and his girlfriend Janet McQueen walk towards the Roman Baths of Bath, when Janet suddenly disturbs the silence to ask her ever grumpy partner a most delicate question: 'Does he know your Christian name?'.[1] Of course, the he is the ever jolly Sergeant Lewis, without whose dedication Morse could not possibly have solved the myriad complicated murder cases for which he has become famous.…

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