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September 09, 2005
Shameless willy post
So I was writing this essay on Freudian theory and began thinking of writing a blog post about how Freud was completely bonkers. The only time I had penis envy was when I was in the middle of a weekend long labour, oh and perhaps sometimes when I’m standing in the queue for the Ladies and the men opposite seem to be nipping in and out in a flash.
Anyway I was writing the following quote;
'The fetish is a substitute for the penis ... I hasten to add that it is not a substitute for any chance penis but for a particular and quite special penis that had been extremely important in early childhood but had later been lost. That is to say it should normally have been given up, but the fetish is precisely designed to preserve it from extinction. To put it more plainly: the fetish is a substitute for the woman’s (the mother’s) penis that the little boy once believed in and - for reasons familiar to us - does not want to give up. Freud 'Fetishism' (1927)
At that precise moment came a feature on Channel Four news about a naked rambler who has been arrested for ‘causing fear and alarm’ or something. I then thought about writing a serious post about how absurd it is that in this day and age we can be put in prison simply for wearing our birthday suit. We were born with it, if you are religious then you believe that God created it, how can it be offensive?
Well I could have written any of those posts but I do not have the time, so instead I’ve rambled on and giggled childishly about willies and stuff.
Posted by purple elephant at September 9, 2005 09:25 PM