Flimsy Sanity: Freud and his frau

Flimsy Sanity

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Freud and his frau

posted by Flimsy Sanity @ 5:19 AM  

4 Comments:

  • At 5:24 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Good one! Freud is the icon of sexism in psychiatry and put equality behind a couple of hundred years.

     

  • At 12:04 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Flimsy, I can't resist:

    The Complaint of the Wife of a Psychoanalyst
    I never get mad, I get hostile;
    I never feel sad, I'm depressed;
    If I sew or I knit, and enjoy it one bit,
    I'm not handy, I'm merely obsessed.


    I never regret, I feel guilty;
    And if I should vacuum the hall,
    Wash the woodwork and such, and not mind it too much,
    Am I tidy? Compulsive, that's all.


    If I can't choose a hat, I have conflicts,
    With ambivalent feelings toward net,
    I never get worried or nervous or hurried --
    Anxiety, that's what I get.


    If I'm happy I must be euphoric;
    If I go the the Stork or the Ritz
    And have a good time making puns or a rhyme,
    I'm manic, or maybe a schiz.


    If I tell you you're right I'm submissive,
    Repressing aggressiveness, too!
    And when I disagree, I'm defensive, you see,
    And projecting my symptoms on you.


    I love you, but that's just transference,
    With Electra rearing her head;
    My breathing asthmatic is psychosomatic,
    A fear of exclaiming, "Drop dead!"


    I'm not lonely, I'm simply dependent;
    My dog has no fleas, just a tic --
    So if I act hateful, never mind -- just be grateful,
    I'm not really a stinker -- I'm sick!


    (from the 1990 Almanac for Farmers & City Folks, reprinted in the Pennsylvania Psychiatrist)

     

  • At 1:25 PM, Blogger Flimsy Sanity said…

    Xristim: How perfect.

     

  • At 1:39 PM, Blogger Reidpsych said…

    RE: the poem mistakenly attributed to the 1990 "Almanac":

    This was originally titled "Lament to the Wife of a Psychiatrist" and actually written by my mother (Lucile Reid Brock), who passed away in November, 2008. She wrote it during the late 1940s, while her then-husband was a psychiatry resident in Dallas, Texas. She presented it at a professional meeting in Galveston around that time, and it was soon published in the Timberlawn Sanitarium newsletter, The Happy Valley Spark (yes, that really was the newsletter title).

    Should you wish to read more about the poem and read it in its entirety, visit www.reidpsychiatry.com/#lament. For more about my mother's art and books, visit www.reidpsychiatry.com/lucilebrock_art.html.

    Cordially,
    William H. Reid, M.D., M.P.H. (yes, a psychiatrist)

     

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