still pretty windy.

[hafital]

I work right by the water front and even on calm days it's windy here. Today was a real struggle getting to work. :) The wind kept pushing me every which way. LOL. Nearly got swept off to sea. hee.

In class we're reading Freud's Dora: A Fragment of a Case of Hysteria which I found deeply disturbing for some reason, and so did the rest of my

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[nestra]

Heh. My fin de siecle lit class yesterday talked about degeneration. We spent a lot of time rolling our eyes at the central ideas.

I am grateful we're not reading any Freud, though.

[hafital]

I really rather like the fiction of the period. It's so weird and over the top. But yeah, the Freud was rough going. I'm still trying to figure out why I reacted so negatively to it.

[jacquez]

Dora drove me INSANE. The bit that pushed me over the edge was when he asserted that Dora had something wrong with her because she was upset about the friend of her father's WHO KEPT STALKING HER AND TRYING TO FORCE HER TO HAVE SEX WITH HIM.

If I could time-travel back and stab old S.F. in the eye with a fork I would.

[hafital]

Dora drove me INSANE. The bit that pushed me over the edge was when he asserted that Dora had something wrong with her because she was upset about the friend of her father's WHO KEPT STALKING HER AND TRYING TO FORCE HER TO HAVE SEX WITH HIM.

Oh my God that is EXACTLY the part that made me just red with anger. Well, obviously there's something wrong with her because she doesn't want to fuck this creepy guy who's coming on to a fourteen year old! Duh! *shiver* Clearly she's having sexual feelings for Freud and secretly wants to give him a kiss! At that part, I lost the last possible shred of respect I might have had for the man.

I'm so there with the fork.

[jacquez]

I think it's massive cultural change that makes us see Freud the way we do. He violates things that we consider normal and good, and he's writing about a time when a girl like Dora had almost no power.

If, when I was fourteen, I'd said to my father "Dad, this friend of yours keeps trying to have sex with me", my father would have had a problem with that, and not with me. And I had an upbringing that said "People can't do this to you; if they do, tell someone." So I think part of my reaction is some kind of deep-rooted cultural offense, as well as sympathy for Dora.

My dad used to tell me that Freud was a smart man who got everything wrong. As I've grown older and read more S.F., I've come more into agreement with my dad on this issue.