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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
 
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[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 65 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Freudian slip: where you say one thing but mean your mother.

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I've always heard it as "Where you mean to say one thing but fuck your mother"

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He definitely had a thing for mothers too, so it's weird that he's disagreeing with her in the last cell.

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

If it was a man instead of a woman the problem would be the mother.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Since OP neglected to credit the artist:

https://existentialcomics.com/

Great comics about the depressed philandering cokeheads who shaped much of modern philosophy!

[–] Darkard@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I tried to wipe my phone screen twice looking at this before I realised it's just been repeatedly jpeged

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 4 months ago

Well loved.

[–] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

it's crystal clear for me tho

[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It's kind of ironic that Freud came up with this weird theory considering autogynephilia is more common in men than autoandrophilia is in women: The Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests in the Czech Population: Preference, Arousal, the Use of Pornography, Fantasy, and Behavior

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Science facts I question why you know, for 500$, Ragdoll.

[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

~~But in case you're curious about the actual answer~~

Ages ago I was doing some research on the prevalence of different paraphilias (my main focus being zoophilia as I was contributing to WikiFur), and this was one of the few large representative studies I came across. There's one more from Canada, but they didn't ask about autogynephilia/androphilia.

[–] fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's quite clear by now that it has practically nothing to do with gender incongruence, i.e. trans folks, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist as a paraphilia. That is, just because Blanchard got his theory wrong based on incomplete data and probably a good dose of being born into certain social constructs doesn't mean that no cis men get aroused at the thought of them as a woman. It is, as the study in the comment you replied to shows, actually quite common.

Gotta distinguish between the phenomenon auto[gyno/andro]philia (exists), Blanchard's interpretation wrt. trans folks, (falsified), and TERFs (hateful anti-science assclowns). Otherwise we'd be kink shaming.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Many of Freud’s early patients were dissatisfied housewives. I have no difficulty believing he accidentally discovered trans men and came to the conclusion all women wish they have a penis. Hirschfeld he was not.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

In a society where women were repressed into a very narrowly defined role with no room for deviation, the other half enjoyed an attitude of "boys will be boys" and could behave "freely" from their perspective, within a less narrow but no less rigid societal constrain.

Women were literally prohibited, or at least severely frowned upon, to embark on a myriad activities that were acceptable and expected for men. Women were literally prohibited from entering many physical spaces, and were expected to be confined to other spaces - like the kitchen, the parlor and the tea room.

I guess it was impossible even for Freud to see how "penis envy" might have been, at root, "I wish I was a man so I could escape this narrow set of rules I was born and peer-pressured into, with no choice by me, I wish I was free" (not quite free, just "less trapped").

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

Penis science!

Its a bit rough at the campus, but the science building has great architecture! So very tall!
But we mustn't forget about the two buildings beside it. Never neglect those or you won't get a PhD (pretty huge dick).

[–] MovingThrowaway@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Freud was all about building interesting models for human consciousness, then using them to come to the wildest conclusions.

Tbf, with the sexually repressed and patriarchal society he was working in, there may have been some truth to the complexes he described. But to try and universalize them was a mistake imo.

Some interpret "penis envy" as a purely symbolic metaphor for envying the power and freedom given to men, with the inverse "castration anxiety" being fear of losing said power.

Freud hypothesized the subconscious had its own logic that was more about association than rational connection.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

We're gonna be talking about the PENIS!

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Do you think that's funny, Butt-Head?

[–] weevai@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

And the vagina! And MASTURBATION!

[–] Rubisco@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago
[–] geography082@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I would suggest the autor to study psychology before giving this humorous statement

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Freud studied the Old Testament, you say?