A kind of self-reference

[hipnessmolecule]

This idea had been kicking around for quite some time, and surely not just with me, but it's become more compelling over the last week or two

Comments

So Freud was a Fraud?

[anonymous]

So Freud unconsciously developed his Oedipus Complex theory in order to suggest to his mother that she should sleep with him?

Re: So Freud was a Fraud?

[hipnessmolecule]

Charles Mingus wrote a piece called "All The Things You Could Be Right Now if Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother".

Freud's mother was apparently a real hottie.

Re: So Freud was a Fraud?

[anonymous]

You said "Freud's mother". Did you mean his wife?

Wife or Mother...?

[hipnessmolecule]

If you apply Feud's method to his own work, do you find that it makes any difference if I say "wife" or "mother"?

And to apply Hipnessmoleculean method, does the use of '"' above or not make a difference? (By "say" I mean "write" or "note".)

(Notice the Feudian slip in the first line! The use of the same word in the previous sentence was deliberate, but it wasn't in the first line.)

Re: So Freud was a Fraud?

[hipnessmolecule]

It (Oedipus Complex) came to him in a dream. He was having sex with Oedipus's mother. Or was it Oedipus?