sis, you'll be proud

[Dalya]

i'm taking a class on the psychology of gender. i anticipate a lot of freud.

[squeezle]

you should only get freud in the history portion of the course - there has been a lot of work done in the field since that time that. i'll be happy to share my study notes if you think they will be of use. us nerds have to stick together


p.s. yes, i am proud!

[Irock]

I'm taking "Philosophy & Literature" and "Criticism 2," both with the most ball-busting prof in the English Dept. She's 80 years old if she's a day, and she's sharper than any of the 20-year-olds in her class. She says some of the bitchiest things ever, two people cried in the last class I took with her (they won't even let her teach entry level anymore).

I fucking love her.

[Rebecca]

i'm taking a class on the psychology of gender. i anticipate a lot of freud.

I'm taking that class this semester. We briefly covered Freud, but we talked a lot more about people who disagreed with Freud.

[Dalya]

yeah. i mostly admire freud because w. h. auden wrote a poem about him. i guess that's ignorant of me. i suppose all that ego/id stuff is fairly important.

i hope my teacher is like yours. gender issues really interest me if the professor/class isn't all gay about it. as in: i want to look at things analytically and not start screaming because i have a vagina and it's not fair.

i think looking at all the studies that examine the biology of males and females is extremely interesting, especially the studies on the differences in hormones, etc. Apparently scientests have found that men and women basically only have enough difference in hormone levels to have different parts, but not necessarily enough to affect behavior in general (only during hormone cycles). veeeery interesting.

[Rebecca]

Freud's most important contribution was bringing psychology "out of the closet" so to speak. No one ever talked about psychology or learned about psychology before Freud. I think that's the real reason we study Freud. Most people don't really agree with him (especially the feminists).

Re "penis envy" becca

[Dalya]

yeah but the article i read, which was about his studies on hysteria, were actually really accurate.

he found that women are more prone to hysteria because their lives demand that they care for others before themselves, and women who were sick nurses or nuns, etc, were especially prone. he also found that women who were very intelligent or creative (who he said were as smart as men, and understood things just as easily and in the same way) were very prone to hysteria, because they had all that intelligence and creativity with no outlet.

enter sylvia plath.

i just read her poem "Daddy". I thought I had father issues, but wow. Bitch is crazy.