For the record, I think Freud was a misogynist and a quack, but to each his own.
Could be right, the penis envy thing seems stupid.He didn’t escape being a product of his time completely with regards to social attitudes about gender. I actually read Karen Horney more than Freud. She had some negative views on Freud but was basically extrapolating,perhaps improving on his works and those of other predecessors in some areas.This part that I quoted is pretty standard thinking in psychoanalysis. Note that it does not claim that people using adaptive mechanism are sick or abnormal.Nor does it necessarily apply to you.You are vigilante and that is good. You can obviously decide if you are taking it too far for yourself.
I actually have the some of the same motivations for countering your claims as you have for making them.I am ill-prepared if I am frightened more than frightended if ill prepared. I don’t want to see anyone else go off the deep end either.
Not so much of it really is about “pretending everything” is O.K. whereas you say you have suffered a recent shock to your belief system, regarding dreams, I have not. There are a lot of people who are in line for a beating long before I am. I see them faring reasonably well,even when they lose some of the material things, maybe a little of what they hold as prestigious, so I think to myself life goes on.That’s not to say everything is a cake walk but it looks like the basics will be covered without dire changes. If I see different things, I will think different things.Can’t control everything. I probably need to take Breeze’s admontition to enjoy life more than you do though!
