-- Cultural influences -- Cross-cultural and subcultural influences -- Reference group influences -- Family

and madness in I.J. Singer's The family Carnovsky -- Sigmund Freud and the Jewish joke -- Sexology

such themes as family disturbances and the loss of American myths; includes "Buried Child" and "Curse

, Firdaus suffers a childhood of cruelty and neglect. Her passion for education is ignored by her family