Dec 23, 2009
Certain critics—including psychoanalyst Paul Schilder and author Katherine Anne Porter—have argued that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland should be kept away from children because it is riddled with material that causes anxiety. For example, Schilder has cited the book’s frequent references to devouring small animals as evidence of the work’s “preponderant oral sadistic trends.”
The government of China banned the book in 1931, charging that its talking animals were offensive because their use of language placed them inappropriately on the...
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