Abbey’s Reviews > On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud > Status Update

“All models are wrong, but some are useful”

I feel like Freud working with kids is like a professor trying to teach geometry to first graders. Like, they’ll enjoy the shapes, but be confused as f*ck about the equations.
(And this is why the narrator of the other story went into medical rather than law, bc kids are sponges even when they don’t understand, and telling a kid about the oedipus complex etc is just… like that’s too big of a convo. Hold up)

The way people who rely solely on Freud’s teachings apply things like “you didn’t want to outshine your father with your own success” to a 10 year old who just gets nervous talking to girls is WILD

Starting a section on the oedipus complex with the writer accidentally making a landscape painting look like a p*nis when adding color to it in 4th grade art class and then handing it to his mother at home is actually very funny

Hell yes going after JK!
“Is being a woman having ovaries? Well yes, but there are women who have had hysterectomies…”

Just that whole section is fantastically worded

“My thought is: If you have a theory that does not bring kindness and compassion to people who are suffering, than what you need more than anything else, is a new theory”