On her seventh conception her oldest son, Freud, was alpha male and, despite his namesake's suspicions, took no interest in her.
But it was my sense at the time, and it is my sense now, more than three years after my mother's death, that the comfort my mother derived from speaking with him was also due to her own conception — her very traditional conception — of their relationship.
Hausner directs in a retentive style — she doesn't just withhold expression, inflection, and point of view, but also, with her cagily elliptical editing (which reflects huge gaps in her conception of her situations and her characters), withholds information — mere factual information — that would make the movie both clearer and more complex.
Crucially, she blames him for that eight-year gap between her conception and her birth, on the grounds that he wanted her mother "to himself".
He and Guillaume Laurant, with whom he wrote the script, tell the story of Amélie (Audrey Tautou) from her conception through her adult life, which is filled with the kind of offhand cruelty normally found in the novels of John Irving and Kurt Vonnegut.
According to Korsgaard, an agent is only rational if she is consistently motivated in accordance with some general principles that provide her conception of her practical identity.
The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on her own conception of her spiritual imperatives and her place in society".
This includes her "immaculate conception (at her conception she was miraculously free of "original sin")," her "perpetual virginity (she never had sexual intercourse throughout her entire life)," and her corporal or bodily "assumption" into heaven.
Before the conception of her first child, her daughter Evie, a radiant presence in the book, she climbed Silbury Hill and begged the air: "Give me a child!" At the time, she was preparing for IVF treatment.
Marian devotion grew from the 13th century, mostly forming around the concepts of the Immaculate Conception and her Assumption into heaven.
"It's a very intuitive, collaborative process," she says, also noting the crucial role her sister plays in the initial conception of her works.
