![]() Let’s say that Helen Goff, in her disappointment and anger at her father, thought (as most children do from time to time), “I hate you. Since this kind of self-blame isn’t reality-based, how can we understand these unwarranted feelings of guilt? In the psychoanalytic world, Freud called this omnipotence of thought – thoughts or feelings imbued with a magical power to kill. ![]() ![]() Yet, is a child responsible for a parent’s death? Many children unconsciously think so. Banks who needs to be saved? Or is it PL Travers herself – from her guilt? Despite her best efforts, Travers (born Helen Goff) couldn’t save her father – the fun, whimsical, alcoholic, and failed banker, Travers Goff. “You think Mary Poppins came to save the children? Oh, Dear….”īut is it really Mr. Banks takes many of us back to delicious childhood memories of Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke singing “Jolly Holiday,” “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” “Let’s Go Fly a Kite,” and “A Spoonful of Sugar Makes The Medicine Go Down.” Yet, what we couldn’t know as children is the heartbreaking story behind PL Travers’ Mary Poppins a trauma so deep a spoonful of kindness would never be enough to turn it around.įighting Walt Disney ( Tom Hanks) and his team at every step of the way in the making of Disney’s Mary Poppins, PL Travers ( Emma Thompson) disdainfully shakes her head: ![]()
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