Q: What do you call an overly sexual undergarment for females?
**Picture inserted to block the answer**
**I drew it, btw...On Coral Painter on the computer. Good, huh? :D**
A: Freudian slip.
Literally, almost everything he came up with in his theories of psychology, I'd guarantee he mentions sex in there, and I haven't even taken psychology (so you could argue my argument is wrong, but hey, you'll see what I'm talking about). Freud came up with a theory (actually, two, if you count its sister theory) called the Oedipus complex, which basically says all males (at least at a young age) yearn to kill their father and have sex with their mother. The sister theory I spoke of, the Electra complex, says all females (at least at a young age) yearn to kill their mothers and have sex with their fathers.
Um. Well. The thing I don't like about these theories is because I completely disagree, but how am I going to argue against it? Counter argument? You could argue we are all individuals, so my counter argument could be an exception, and no, it's not run time. The funny thing they say (I'm not authorized to say who "they" is, but I can assure you that even I don't know who they is, so it doesn't even matter. I had to fall to lose it- wait...) is that females tend to go for males that remind them of their fathers. Which brings me to my point; it's that I really dislike my father for reasons that are probably the same as why my mother and brother probably also dislike my father.
**Interesting fact! Males of literally all ages prefer females of their early 20's. Even male teenagers. Yeah. Younger male + older female? ....yeah....
I mean, the problem with those complexes are that we can't ask babies if they'd like to murder their parent. I mean, that's just screwed up if they said yes....
Actually another thing I didn't like about those theories is because they're all misnomers, but you can't really blame them for just going for the closest thing...it's not like they can just invent a myth to name their theory after, right?
The Oedipus complex is probably the closest to the actual meaning of the theory. When Oedipus was born, his parents brought him to an oracle and the oracle was saying how Oedipus was going to grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. After hearing that, the parents did the only thing they could and ditched Oedipus at the side of the road. Well, more like they told a servant to go find Oedipus a new home. Same thing. Anyways, so much for family bonding, right?
Well, Oedipus gets taken in with another royal family, and time passes, and Oedipus doesn't know he's adopted, and he loves his new family, so he goes to an oracle when he's of the age of adventure, and he's like "what's my fortune, yo!?" and the oracle gives him the whole "kill father marry mother", and he's just horrified! So he sadly leaves and goes on the road. While Oedipus is on the road, some mean king in a carriage is like "GET OUT THE WAY! GET OUT THE WAY DUDE, GET OUT THE WAY! MOVE, DUDE!"
Naturally, Oedipus kills the guy.
So, Oedipus goes on his merry way, and he hears of a city that's cut off because a sphinx is blocking the way and demands people solve a riddle, and everyone's too stupid to guess the answer, so Oedipus has a go at it. The riddle, the Sphinx's riddle, is "What crawls on four legs in the morn, two legs at noon, and three at night?" The answer was "a man". The sphinx was so shocked and angered that Oedipus solved the riddle, so, you guessed it.
The sphinx hurled itself off the cliff it was on and died. It's only logical.
Anyhoo, Oedipus went into the city, and everyone was like "Yo dude, that's so awesome! Be our king! Our old king died, and the queen is now available!" So Oedipus goes to the queen, who, in some version of the myth, have the Necklace of Harmonia, which is supposed to keep the wearer lookin' young and...well...hot, I guess. So Oedipus approved of this queen, and was willing to be king for the city, so he married this queen and had a few kids.
Then one day, Oedipus finds out the truth. His new queen is his mom. That king he killed on the road? His dad. His children? Weeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllll, the product of incest. Needless to say, that day really sucked.
So his mother/wife finds out and hangs herself, and he's so WTF, that he goes away to die, etc (I might be wrong on this though)
So that's the abridged version of Oedipus, The Onion Cat style.
The Electra story that the complex is named after, to be honest, I don't really remember don't kill me! >o<. What I do remember though, is that Electra plotted with her brothers to kill one of her parents, I think. Her father? I think? The "killing" aspect of the complex is really the only similarity between her story and the complex theory (LOL "complex theory")...oh, and the fact that they're female (Oh gosh, I almost used the wrong they're/their/there there!).
So that's my run down on Greek Mythology relating to Psychology.
This has been the intersection of two of my favorite subjects, and I hope you've not been bored to death enjoyed reading!
Good night, because I have to finish an essay, reading a chapter, doing a journal on that chapter, and the Church expects me to find those few 5 minutes before bed to read the bible,
The Onion Cat
PS. it's 1AM....so I probably shouldn't have written this entry right now, but hey, sometimes I feel like the things that I'll do In My Life don't or won't even matter.
PPS. I wanna write up a making butter/ice cream lab!
PPPS. I love that song, In My Life by the Beatles.
PPPPS. I'm doing it right--it's P( x however many times)S, instead of PSSSSSSSSS etc, because PS stands for "Post script", and so, if it was PSS, it'd be "Post script script," while PPS is "Post-Post script", meaning "After after script". so. yeah.
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