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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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Goodbye Blue Monday

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My therapist kind of looks like Mustang though, and he also used to be in the military.

And I suppose I should feel guilty that I'm having perverted thoughts about my therapist. But he's a neo-Freudian so he'd probably understand.

Well played, ma'am, well played.

Freud was a pervert.

Well, more specifically, his idea of "projection" was supposed to explain people becoming attracted to therapists.

I learned about this in undergrad when I had to read Freud for Feminism and Queer Theory, but I totally forgot the nitty-gritty of how this works.
 

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I wish I had an imaginary friend to confide in. My last one ditched me :(
 

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My therapist kind of looks like Mustang though, and he also used to be in the military.

And I suppose I should feel guilty that I'm having perverted thoughts about my therapist. But he's a neo-Freudian so he'd probably understand.

Well played, ma'am, well played.

Freud was a pervert.

Well, more specifically, his idea of "projection" was supposed to explain people becoming attracted to therapists.

I learned about this in undergrad when I had to read Freud for Feminism and Queer Theory, but I totally forgot the nitty-gritty of how this works.

I read into Freud a little bit, but I kinda lost focus when the subject went to that stage of everyone's life where they become sexually attracted to their parents.

Remember that phase? I don't. I lost track of Freud after that.

My therapist kind of looks like Mustang though, and he also used to be in the military.

And I suppose I should feel guilty that I'm having perverted thoughts about my therapist. But he's a neo-Freudian so he'd probably understand.

Well played, ma'am, well played.

Freud was a pervert.

I also enjoy Frasier.

Was that a joke on Frasier at some point? I didn't even know. xD Sounds like it would.
 

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I wish I had an imaginary friend to confide in. My last one ditched me :(

My imaginary friend as a kid was actually an "imaginary enemy," he also ate poop and drank pee.

Maybe he's the "poop in your pants" homunculus?
 

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Goodbye Blue Monday said:
Well, more specifically, his idea of "projection" was supposed to explain people becoming attracted to therapists.

I learned about this in undergrad when I had to read Freud for Feminism and Queer Theory, but I totally forgot the nitty-gritty of how this works.

I read into Freud a little bit, but I kinda lost focus when the subject went to that stage of everyone's life where they become sexually attracted to their parents.

Remember that phase? I don't. I lost track of Freud after that.

It's supposed to be subconscious, and I think it's more about how we tend to want to date people who are like our opposite-sex parent (assuming people are heterosexual).

For me, the thing that pissed me off about Freud is penis envy. Because that's pretty much the exact opposite of what little girls think when they first find out that boys' parts look different from theirs.

Anyway, there's pretty much no psychologist these days who believes in Freud wholesale anymore, because a lot of his ideas have been disproven by later scientific research into the human mind. That's why I read him in a gender studies class rather than a psychology class. Neo-Freudians are those who adapt some Freudian ideas with what we know now.
 

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I used to have an imaginary friend. Vestiges of her still remain in my psyche. Such as when I'm by myself, but use terms like we instead of I.
 

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I don't know anyone outside of the internet with a therapist, but I know a few people online.

You probably do, but they just don't talk about it.

All my friends are a little insane in our own ways, though, so we all talk about how we go to therapists and take meds and stuff. I also live in an area where there's a lot less shame about getting psychological help - not so much in the suburbia I grew up in.

Also my life is a Woody Allen movie. So.
 

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I never got the concept of the whole Oedipus and/or Elektra complex. I mean understand that there is a clear subconscious basis behind it, but other then that and it gets weird. Read a pretty damn good book with Freud as a character by Rubenfield though, the death instinct if I recall. Chilling book because it takes you places and it twists more then a snake.
 

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It's supposed to be subconscious, and I think it's more about how we tend to want to date people who are like our opposite-sex parent (assuming people are heterosexual).

Yeah, that much I can believe. I read someplace that (for example) straight people with an older mom would be more likely to find a larger age range of women attractive, and that's definitely the case with me. My mom was in her mid-30s when she had me, for the record. :I

For me, the thing that pissed me off about Freud is penis envy. Because that's pretty much the exact opposite of what little girls think when they first find out that boys' parts look different from theirs.

I sorta gradually learned about girl parts over the years, so all I really knew for a while was "girls don't have nuts", and I always wondered what they did have. Then I did get a better picture of what's there and by the time I knew enough to explain it to someone else I was at the age where I knew about baby-making and I just kinda went, "Oh, that makes sense."
 

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It's okay, he doesn't know that my right hand was amputated after a failed basket weaving experiment.

Good thing your left hand wasn't eaten by the sharks when we were scuba diving after the communist gold left over after the sub going to Atlantis sunk.
 

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The only mental problem I have is The Imprisoned.

This is a bout of severe depression that hits every 3 months or so. I then have to battle it back into its hole and reseal it. It then remains dormant until next time.
 

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For those who don't understand "my life is a Woody Allen movie" here's an example (dialogue NSFW):

[video=youtube;Ndhat6K7bjo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndhat6K7bjo[/video]

The way the annoying guy in line is talking is like half the conversations you have in grad school (at least, if you're in the humanities).
 

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Also my life is a Woody Allen movie. So.

I think my life would be a David Lynch movie.

I used to have an imaginary friend. Vestiges of her still remain in my psyche. Such as when I'm by myself, but use terms like we instead of I.

I talk to myself. I always have. I've done it for such a long time that I sometimes forget that it's not normal. I always feel a little weird after those reality checks.
 

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I should watch Annie Hall, I really enjoyed Manhattan.
 
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