Long OT Re: Freudian/Lacanian

[Alicia/Sue Spinnet]

No: HPFGUIDX 7412


> One of the reasons that I hate English and Literature as subjects 
is 
> that, once we were out of sixth grade and writing essays about the 
> "theme" (actually, the "moral", as in "the theme of this story is 
> that prejudice is unfair") of the assigned story, the next seven 
> years (required Freshman Comp was the LAST English class I ever 
took, 
> hallelu-ilat!) was writing essays about the Freudian symbolism in 
the 
> assigned story. Cranking out identifications of things as Freudian 
> symbols is an easy enough mechanical exercise that I got Bs (if 
it's 
> longer than it's wide, it's a phallic symbol; if it's wider than 
it's 
> long, it much be a vaginal symbol).

No dissention here.  I've spent the last semester overanalyzing all 
of my favorite classics in sophomore English to the point where I 
never want to read them, or even think about them, again.  "The 
Catcher in the Rye", "Huck Finn"... my teacher even found a way to 
ruin "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" for me!  *cries*  Ahem.  
Anyway.  If that man even *touches* on HP, I will scream and throw my 
grammar book across the room in a display of insubordination.  Or 
maybe not.

Groaning as she realizes that Freudian symbolism will probably poke 
its ugly little head sometime in the enxt semester,

--Alicia/Sue "McGonagall on Speed" Spinnet