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sigmund__freud

Folklore

Sep 19, 2003 19:51

My but it has been a very long time since I last updated, hasn't it? I've been a very busy ghost, trying to frighten all the new students who keep trying to use the computers in the psychology department. Sure, it may seem mean, but all they want is the free printer. I think I might have gone overboard with that one girl who was in there alone, ( Read more... )

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timothy_goebel September 20 2003, 00:58:49 UTC

people want to be scared because they want to test themselves, desensitize even...they want to make it so they aren't afraid...
and it's a real buzz for adrenaline junkies.

even though this has nothing to do with me, [i] wouldn't mind some peanut butter cookies...or a postcard...;)

sigmund__freud September 20 2003, 01:01:55 UTC

[If I had your address, I would probably send you a postcard and cookies, and random other things. Because I'm weird like that. :-) Snag me at my regular IM - AxolotlsRCool]

sigmund__freud September 21 2003, 23:53:46 UTC

[ aww, you probably thought I was kidding about those cookies ]

bree__sharp September 20 2003, 02:00:39 UTC

What about that theory you once had, that everyone has the death instinct but they tend to project it on other people?

I feel like I'm groping in the dark here.

sigmund__freud September 20 2003, 02:15:09 UTC

You're so sweet for remembering. Sort of, to your question - there is Eros, or life force. People automatically assume there is also an opposing "death force." But I didn't really say that.

Then there is projection, putting your feelings towards one person onto that person, and directing them back at you. This often comes out with young children and the Oedipal Complex. The young boy wants to kill his father, so that he can have his mother's affections to himself. Of course, it is not socially acceptable for a boy to want to kill his father, but he still distances himself from his father (still socially unacceptable, but not so much with the killing). He projects his feelings onto his father, so that the father wants to kill him (because he, the boy, is a threat to the father's relation with the mother), and this gives the boy reason to distance himself from his father.

More or less.

bree__sharp September 20 2003, 02:22:10 UTC

My psych 101 professor would be proud I'm sure.
Why did I think it was Thantos? My Brain does things I'm not aware of I guess.

Yea I'm familiar with the Oedipal complex and projection, but in relation to this fantasy thing, is it relevant?

That's what I thought.

sigmund__freud September 20 2003, 02:57:49 UTC

Thanatos does mean death force, it just isn't a big part of my theory.

I suppose, in the case of projection, we want to see the bad things happen to other people. And we want to drive home the point to our children that bad things happen to bad people - you cheat on your lover, and you'll die! Die!

And toss in some guilt for fun, I suppose. You're afraid bad things might befall you because of impure thoughts (hey, a lot of these were written by and for the Puritans) so you say that other people did them. Hawthorne did that in the preface to "The Scarlet Letter," if my memory serves me correctly, he didn't write these things - his mind didn't come up with these things - he just found them in a house and published them.

We are very afraid, in general. We're so afraid of death, so we create dead people who did the bad things. And then we become afraid that those same things will happen to us.

I suppose.

elenaberezhnaya September 20 2003, 07:31:57 UTC

Is okay!! Just let me know. :) [That's fine, I totally understand.]

elvisstojko October 10 2003, 00:55:31 UTC

totally off topic, but I've added you... you seem to know a lot of my friends, so. :) Been reading a few of your journal entries and I'm finding them quite interesting reading.

sigmund__freud October 10 2003, 02:24:16 UTC

Hey, great to meet you Elvis. Now I've got an Elvis, and an Elvis impersonator on my list.