An interesting, if a bit scattered, look at some of the deep psychodramas or psychoanalytical themes running through Sendak's books. He really does seem to write from some very deep grasp of the traumas and conflicts of childhood, and the struggle to become a separate, adult being and accept the fact. Rage, abandonment, realizing you are not the centre of the family (or the world), having to be self-reliant, all of these themes run through his book.
An interesting look at a very deep artist. But it also underlines how many writers and artists spend their whole life writing the same story, circling around the same trauma or issue. Deep, but a bit narrow in the end. Something you do if you have to, I guess.
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