identification with the abuser
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Renfield, or “I’ll hurt everyone you care about”

As you know, if you’ve read a review of or seen the trailer for Renfield, the movie’s amusing and basically satisfying twist on the Dracula lore is to put the focus on the co-dependent relationship between the vampire and his servant, Renfield. And though we’ve had our share of co-dependent relationships down the years, the Continue reading
About Me
Michael A. Leavy is a neuroqueer author, anarchist, retired educator, dabbler in magic, onetime actor, Tarot reader…
If you haven’t read the introductory blog you might wonder about our use, now and again, of the 1st person plural pronoun. Though there is only one Michael at the keyboard, there are, as you can gather from the content of some of the posts, multiple active occupants in our psyche, so the plural pronoun is often preferred. There are many occasions, though, on which, for any number of reasons, the singular seems more apt, so it appears regularly as well.
