Comments | euchrid: Overeducated dork

euchrid

Overeducated dork

May 11, 2007 11:13

I think that I want to write a paper about Batman and Superman as representations of the id and superego respectively, with the reader as ego.

If only I had more time, motivation and understanding of Freudian theory.

On a related note, check out this parody of the PC vs Mac commercials using DC and Marvel. I love it even though my preferences ( Read more... )

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solitas_revised May 11 2007, 03:48:13 UTC

that could work!

you wouldn't need to limit it to Freudian theory, his ideas of the id/ego/superego were expanded by a bunch of other psychoanalytic theorists, some of whom went less mad and were less pressured by the sociopolitical climate of the time to renounce their sensible theories in favour of those that didn't challenge the status quo.

but you'd have to know more about them, so that won't work either.

euchrid May 11 2007, 04:44:34 UTC

The thing that I miss most about academia was the capacity to pursue bizarre ideas like this, just because they were interesting.

solitas_revised May 11 2007, 05:29:53 UTC

same here. i'm getting tempted to float my original masters idea around body modification at work, to see if i could make it fly there, since UWA were too conservative for it.

euchrid May 11 2007, 05:57:37 UTC

You totally should.

madolan May 11 2007, 12:16:36 UTC

The Batman one supports your preferences... but I can't find it now. Parody #3 is particularly dear to my heart.

And while it isn't Freud, let me once again recommend Kafka Americana, a slim volume by Jonathan Lethem and Carter Scholz.

15. If it had been possible to build the Fortress of Solitude without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.

17. The Joker's henchmen break into the museum and empty the display cases; this occurs repeatedly, again and again: finally it can be reckoned upon beforehand and becomes a part of the exhibition.

42. You have harnessed yourself ridiculously for this world.

104. You do not need to leave your cave. Remain sitting at the police scanner and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The Joker will freely offer himself to you to be unmasked, he has no choice, he will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
We are living in a time in which the marriage of superheroes and academia nets Pulitzers and woos bestseller lists. Gen X awaits retellings of ( ... )