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Special Agent Clarice Starling: Dr. Lecktor, there’s no correlation {that I have seen} between Transsexualism and Violence. They’re passive types, usually.

Dr. Lecter: You are absolutely one hundred per cent correct, Clarice. Sometimes you’ll see a tendency towards surgical addiction – cosmetically, Transsexuals are difficult to satisfy – but that’s about it. You’re so close, did you know that? To how you’re going to find this man you seek.

Clarice: Tell me how to find him, Doctor.

Dr. Lecter: So impatient. That was sloppy, Clarice. Very sloppy indeed. Tell me, Clarice, did you ever find any difficulties during your elementary schooling.

Clarice: No – not during my elementary years. Academics – I have always excelled in academics.

Dr. Lecter: Except for the social aspect, correct, Starling?

Silence.

Dr. Lecter: Tell me about your boss, Mr. Jack Crawford. His wife is dying, you know. You didn’t know that, did you, Clarice. Do you want to know why Jack Crawford failed to mention his dying wife to you, Clarice?

Clarice: It’s really none of my business.

Dr. Lecter: It is if it informs his ability to protect you, Clarice.

Silence.

Dr. Lecter: Your Imago, this Special Agent Jack Crawford – do you view him as a Father or a Lover? Tell me, Clarice.

Clarice: Neither.

Dr. Lecter: Do you know what “Imago” means, Clarice? Please, enthrall me with your acumen.

Clarice: Please define it for me, doctor.

Dr. Lecter: I borrow it from the Dead Religion of Psychoanalysis: The Imago is the Mature Adult Form of an Insect, Typically Wingéd. In my Religion [a Dead Religion, Jung’s Psychodynamic Theory], the Imago is the Idealized Form of a Parental Figure. Now tell me, my dear Scholar: Who in your life acts as your Imago?