What she means: some people like to watch Die Hard at Christmas but they don’t think about how Die Hard was a reaction to 80s action movies where every male lead was a huge fucking dude with biceps as big around as his waist like making an action movie with an average looking fucking dude like Bruce Willis was a big fucking deal at the time like they didn’t want just any Schwarzenegger or Stallone running around killing people left and right blowing shit up like it’s no big deal and then dropping a one liner they wanted a normal proportioned fucking dude who gets the absolute shit kicked out of him the whole movie until at the end he’s bleeding from an open gunshot wound, he’s got a fucking huge shard of glass in his foot, he’s bruised he’s battered he’s using his dirty fucking tank top as a bandage and it was white at the beginning of the movie but it’s fucking brown now bc he’s been crawling around in a fucking air vent and his wife sees him and barely fucking recognizes this broken shell of a man as he limps forward to try to rescue her like at the time they were like this’ll never work people aren’t gonna wanna see this but they did!!! People still love it hell it’s a Christmas classic now!!! But Bruce Willis has spent the rest of his career since then making the exact same kinds of movies Die Hard was supposed to subvert and the Die Hard franchise itself has even become subject to this phenomenon so the entire context of the original film is completely lost now
I don’t know if anything will happen with Guzmán, or anyone else, or if nothing will happen at all. But if I go back it will be without conditions. …I don’t know who I am yet. But I’m going to find out.
His whole weird theory about penis envy and children being sexually attracted to their parents and secret desires and all that shit actually came straight out of an attempt to ally himself with wealthy and influential rapists and was a direct form of victim blaming.
He had started the research looking into “hysteria” which at the time was really usually referring to women’s symptoms of PTSD. It turned out that the reason so many woman had these symptoms is because so many of them had experienced sexual violence– especially CSA and incest at the hands of their fathers.
At first he was making real progress, and it was through working with these women that he discovered that talk therapy could be used to treat trauma. The symptoms of PTSD were lessened when women were able to safely speak about their experiences out loud and be believed.
But it wasn’t the women who paid for the therapy. It was their fathers, husbands, the same men who were perpetuating the violence in the first place. And Freud didn’t want to validate his patients (the women) if it meant making his clients (the men) unhappy.
So he came up with a new idea. These symptoms weren’t from trauma. The memories weren’t real. These women were just sexual beings as children and had penis envy and it made them lust for their fathers and fantasize about the rape that they had reported to him. That’s where the shittiest parts of Freud’s theories emerged.
Another part of it besides just the monetary aspect, though, was that there was a feminist movement on the fringes starting up at the time and by publishing work about women’s CSA he would be aligning himself with it and therefore losing support, respect, funding, prestige from his male peers and from the psychological community at large. He literally made that gross victim blaming shit up to keep his own reputation with these fucks and to make sure he still got publication and fame.
By coming up with fake theory about little girls fantasizing about incest he not only fucked over generations of women, the feminist movement that was arising, and the entire psychology field for years to come, but he also completely swept away any progress made in understanding trauma and so we didn’t have any clue why men coming back from war had “hysteria” like women during WWI.
And our research on PTSD and trauma is still lacking to this day, especially because of the stigma that maybe traumatized people deserved it or wanted it or imagined it. People don’t want to believe it’s real. Perpetrators of traumatic violence want everyone to forget about it, not acknowledge it, or trivialize it.
And they have Freud’s cultural legacy to help them.
Can you provide academic citations for this? This is really neat.
If you want some more, just google, “Sigmund Freud Seduction Theory Problematic.” There’s lots of academic and non-academic discussion on the topic, but TLDR Sigmund Freud is basically disregarded in almost all aspects of psychology by anyone who actually cares about their patients, so fuck that guy for holding psychology back.
Words cannot express how much I hate Freud. His theories have been entirely disproven by current psychological research, but using him to interpret literary texts is still a widely accepted technique in the field of literary study today.
English departments across the country will not bat an eye at tenured professors bringing Freud into lectures and citing him in scholarly articles and books. Doing a “Freudian reading” of a literary character or theme is regarded as a valid means of understanding and drawing meaning from works by authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and C.S. Lewis. And it is based entirely on this guy’s unbelievably sexist, flat-out fraudulent, and thoroughly disproven research. It’s insane.
Just so everyone on my dash is aware that Freud’s theories are pseudoscience.
I too hate Freud and everything he stands for. I just wish people knew why I hate him so much.
TRANSLATION: “We watched a TV show the other day and there were WOMEN in charge of things! What about the men? WHAT ABOUT THE MEN?!?!? Waaaaah! Waaaaaah!”
(many thanks to Ashles3000 for sending in that second one)
“Where the show really shines is showing the differences in the way Budd acts in his professional life vs moments when he’s alone and left to his own will. Professionally, this guy is Jack Bauer level intense. Never does a moment cross where one would get the impression he is a man to be messed with. But, in those private moments, it’s when we see the obsessive compulsion, the rage, the emotional distress. We see all the things we never get to see from series of this type.”
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