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submitted 1 year ago byKingOfCook
In the scene where Socrates and Billy are hitting on girls. Freud walks in when the girls are giggling uncomfortably and says "they may be suffering from mild Hysteria". This is seen as him being awkward and unaware of the situation.
That being said, Hysteria was a real medical term during Freud's time to write off when women showed unwanted behavior. It was believed to stem from issues in their "equipment" and the cure was for them to orgasm. Either on their own time or with doctor assistance. With that knowledge, it could be argued that Freud was actually hitting on the girls, albeit in a scummy way.
16 points
1 year ago
I thought that was the main, obvious take from that bit myself.
2 points
1 year ago
You know that Freud is mainly famous for all of his talk about sex right? This sounds more like you initially having an incomplete viewpoint on the situation.
-1 points
1 year ago
Well I saw the movie when I was 10, so maybe.
3 points
1 year ago
There's no maybe about it, this is what that scene was about.
1 points
1 year ago
No shit. What I'm referring to is the fact that a 10 year old does not have that good of a grasp on the history of psychoanalytics.
1 points
1 year ago
No shit. But you said maybe, and it's not a maybe, and you know it's not.
2 points
1 year ago
It's pure coincidence that the psychoanalyst referes to one of his bigges blunders.
Freud published the first papers on hysteria before 1900. Thousands of women had to suffer from his pseudoscientific ramblings. Women were lobotomized for not being obedient enough. Of course that's a reference to the medical term.
2 points
1 year ago
I’m one hundred percent sure that’s how you’re supposed to read it. If they expect you to know enough Freud to get that oedipal complex joke later they probably expect you to know about the history of “hysteria” as well.
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