"Splitting of the Breast" is the sixteenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion, which was created by Gainax. The episode...

Splitting, also called binary thinking, black-and-white thinking, all-or-nothing thinking, or thinking in extremes, is the failure in a person's thinking...

Starting with the sixteenth episode, "Splitting of the Breast", the show changed drastically, discarding the grand narrative concerning salvation for...

layout. The idea of the dreamy train, suggested by assistant director Tsurumaki, was first presented in "Splitting of the Breast"; Anno liked the idea,...

of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion anime television series, produced by Studio Khara. Hideaki Anno served as the writer and general manager of the...

is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. A mastectomy is usually carried out to treat breast cancer...

Child" is the seventeenth episode of the Japanese anime television series Neon Genesis Evangelion. Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi wrote the episode, while...

to abandon the original idea while working on it, with some of the ideas later being used for the sixteenth episode, "Splitting of the Breast", or nineteenth...

the bad, hallucinated breast.: 5  Klein notes that in splitting the object, the ego is also split.: 6  The infant who phantasies destruction of the bad...

to characterize the second half of Evangelion. This change in emphasis was partly due to the intended development of the story, but also partly because...