As an English student Freud comes up everywhere, and while
his theories were part of the last paradigm many still exalt in his ideas. They
point at towers, flagpoles and pencils whispering ‘phallic’ and giggle at the
idea of willies being everywhere. They raise their eyebrows at Freudian slips,
happy in the knowledge you want to have sex with your parents. All the while
they smoke cigars promising themselves that, like Freud “a cigar is just a
cigar”, and they are exempt from the all-encompassing criticism that is
Freudian theory.
Don’t get me wrong, Freud has a few good ideas; I do think
there is some truth in the repressed and the unconscious, sneaky repressed
thoughts getting through into dreams or novels disguised as something else. I
could even go as far as believing what a phallocentric world we live in, giving
women a sense of lacking and an understanding of where their oppression begins.
What I cannot stand is the Freud swot in the corner, spouting
about how Freud is a motherflipping genius. There are so many more applicable
theories that are better thought out, better followed through and more
important than psychoanalysis. Work towards freeing other countries from the
awful things the British Empire did to them in the past, work towards the
liberation of women, rise up as members of the working class. Don’t sit there
tittering at things that are long and pointy.
I’m sure Freud would
have plenty to say about the trains in my last post.
Bastard.
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