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from freud Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - 17:59 (Agree/Disagree?) You are afflicted, it would seem, with an Electra Complex. No none cure as most women have outgrown it by your apparent age (18+). Otherwise, nice abstract poetry! (reply to this comment)

From Fish Monday, March 28, 2005, 08:24 (Agree/Disagree?) And you seem to be fixated in the anal stage.(reply to this comment)

From xolox Thursday, March 24, 2005, 11:26 (Agree/Disagree?) Shaddup Freudwad!(reply to this comment)

From anovagrl Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 14:42 (Agree/Disagree?) Do you know how Freud came up with his wacked-out theories? His very proper male colleagues in the Victorian medical establishment were outraged when Freud initially suggested a relationship between the "hysterical neuroses" he treated in his female patients and their reports of childhood sexual abuse. To maintain his acceptance in the male medical establishment, Freud developed the theory that his female patients' accounts of sexual abuse by their fathers were actually evidence of "repressed infantile wish fulfillment." Freud argued that the abuse didn't really happen, but that his female patients imagined it happened as part of their "normal" psychological development as heterosexual girls. His patients were neurotic and "hysteric" because they never properly resolved their Electra complex. Freud is not respected by therapists who treat trauma survivors. Girls who were raped by their fathers may appear to have a problem outgrowing their "Electra Complex," but that's because Freud's bogus concept has been used for over 100 years to cover up the ugly social truths of incest, rape and child abuse. Verylonelygirl's poem is NOT abstract, and it's not about something she wished for and imagined as a young girl. (reply to this comment)

From Sonderval Thursday, March 24, 2005, 05:05 (Agree/Disagree?) Well said and an excellent theory for Freud's messed up theories about women, it has the ring of truth to it.(reply to this comment)

From Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 13:45 (Agree/Disagree?) Sounds more like a rejection and projection issue to me. I liked it a lot, very honest and relatable. (reply to this comment)

From Sonderval Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 12:33 (Agree/Disagree?) heh, sorry bout that, my favourite Freud joke, but seriously anyone who sets any store by Freud's obsolete and discredited rubbish is an idiot, the Electra complex is just some bollocks he came up with because he'd already created the Oedipus complex in a ludicrous effort to normalise the fact that he wanted to shag his mum and needed a complex for women so they wouldn't feel left out. Freud was a fraud, he was a sick sick man who tried to convince the world that they were all sick so he wouldn't have to feel weird, modern Psychology generally sees him as something of an embarassment.(reply to this comment)

From Sonderval Wednesday, March 23, 2005, 12:23 (Agree/Disagree?) Freud, now there's a cunt . . .(reply to this comment)

from Sonderval Sunday, March 20, 2005 - 00:14 (Agree/Disagree?) I don't often like amateur poetry but that's powerful stuff, it won't get many comments because there's not much you could say in response that wouldn't be trite and meaningless. (reply to this comment)

from poesie Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - 18:03 (Agree/Disagree?) Truthful. Thank you for finding the courage to write & share. A word of caution: This form of confessional poetry makes a lot of people very uncomfortable, and you may get some reactions that surprise you. (reply to this comment)

from elkyle Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - 20:47 (Agree/Disagree?) awesome (reply to this comment)

From neila Friday, March 25, 2005, 09:10 (Agree/Disagree?) why dontcha guys read a little book called "what do you say after you say hello" by eric burne, M.D., you might find it har to accept because its crude in a way, in a insightful way, but i find it true...(reply to this comment)