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Freud, Father of Psychoanalysis, Dies at 83

passed peacefully on one of his therapeutic couches.
Reports say he was psychoanalyzing his death up until his
last minute.

“He seemed to believe that his Jaw Cancer was a result

of his abnormal development of his psyche during his oral
stage, and he kept tracing the root of the disease to a
physical manifestation of being prematurely weaned as a
child. It was quite fascinating, but it made me quite
parched” reports an unnamed observer. In this issue:

Sigmund Schlomo Freud died as the father of

psychoanalysis, but his theories had countless detractors. Freud’s Death 1
He received two Nobel Prize nominations for his works
on the human brain, one for literature and another for
medicine, but he failed on both accounts after a letter
from Albert Einstein, a physicist, disapproving of his How Do We 1,2
nomination (Bloom). Remember Freud?

“Before he died, his last words seemed to mention

‘psychoanalyzing that damned Einstein in hell for his failed
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anal development” claimed another close friend.
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Freud is survived by his wife Martha and his funeral will
be the next Thursday, prospecting visitors are advised to Ask a Freudian 2
search for the funeral without a gravestone or a podium.
Freud Sigmund (1856-1939)
“His last wishes were to hold a funeral without phallic
Our beloved Sigmund Freud died yesterday at the
objects. He didn’t want to be remembered as just
healthy age of 83 in his house located in London (Freud,
another man with penis envy ” remarked Martha.
Access) . Doctors say it was a quiet event, and Freud

H OW D O W E R E M E M B E R F R E U D ?
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Column written by Professor
David. L Brooks.
Last Night, Freud ended his long theoretician?
and prolific life peacefully as he
In my opinion, he is both yet
died at the respectable age of 83.
neither of the two sides. While
But this week’s column isn’t
he was the father of both the When in Doubt, it’s
about how Freud died, but rather,
modern theory of the probably Phallic
how we should remember Freud.
unconscious as well as
Do we remember him as a great
psychoanalysis as a whole,
innovator of psychology and the
inventor of the unconscious or
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… and we should fully commend him for these fine
achievements, we have to put his accomplishments into
10. Your mother didn’t love you enough perspective. His theory of erogenous zone development
9. Your id and your ego are sexually attracted to each other (oral, anal, phallic, genital) is at best speculation. It fails to
8. Your super-ego disapproves account for uncommon family structures, such as children
7. Your mother loved you TOO MUCH without a father, mother, or even both. While his id, ego,
6. Society’s phallic insertion of finger into ring has made your superego of the mind is beautiful in its simplicity, we have
super-ego deathly afraid of sex before marriage. to remember his obsession with everything sexual and

5. “Mary had a Little Lamb” has given you the impression that
you can control society’s sheep with your “Sheppard’s
staff”
4. Baseball’s repeated contact between ball and bat has made
you homophobic.
3. The reason you can’t eat ice cream is because your mother
weaned you much too late.
2. Your lack of a penis has made you hate your parents for
taking it away from you
1. Society’s idea of getting 100 percent in school has made you
believe a two round circles and a single long line is the
only way to succeed in life.
how that limited the true scope of his work (“Freud”,
Encyclopediä)
50 years from now, he will still be regarded as one of the
most influential psychological scholars to ever exist, but
hopefully, we as a society will begin to take some of his
lesser theories with a grain of salt by then. Only by actu-
ally discriminating between his scientifically developed
theories versus his whims of his mind will we truly be able
to understand his deserved impact on the world.

Tip: When confronting your Oedipal issues, try to realize your dad went through the same thing.

Dear Mr. Frued,

I’m a English teacher in high school and I’m trying
to juggle both writing graduate school term
paper and handling their schoolwork as well. I’m
feel like I’m a messy person and I can’t seem to
get everything in my life as organized as I want it
to be, and I’m afraid it’s going to affect my
teaching. What should I do?
Danforth B.
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Dear Danforth:
The reason why you returned to school in order
to spend the rest of your working life is your
http://www.theora.com/msdb.php/life/ inability to let go of the past, as well as to let go
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of certain material possessions. The reason for
this is probably because in your early childhood,
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your mother failed to properly toilet train you,
and thus, the “anal” stage of your development
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was improperly executed. The reason you
are “anal” is because in the past, you were
unable to properly let go of your feces and
currently you face the same dilemma. You are
probably very organized in real life and not
“messy” as you say you are. You need to let
go of the “anal” part of your childhood by
finishing what your mother started. Now I am
by no means suggesting that are incontinent,
but now, every time you visit the lavatory,
think to yourself the progress that you made
since the “anal stage” and realize that you are
physically and consciously a grown, developed
man. You need to tell your unconscious to
back off and verbally say “I am a grown man, I
am past my anal development!”.
Best wishes,
Jim Frued

Jim Frued has formally met Dr. Freud and has studied at Pathway Township HS for 3 years. He holds an informal B.A. in psychotolology as well as telecommunications.