It’s quite fortunate for Dr. Freud that he’s not alive to see the mess my students have made of his theories. I’m sure he’d probably account for their blanket refusal to learn anything about anything by claiming they’re all a bunch of miserable, neurotic onanists. I wouldn’t disagree. At the very least they’re a bunch of illiterate oafs and chowderheads (compared to which I would consider "neurotic onanists" much less offensive).
Click below to view their most recent crimes, and find as many horrible mistakes as you can. Whoever finds the most wins a fabulous mystery prize! Grammatical errors=1 point, erroneous content=2 points.
Freudian Extravaganza: Learn about the Oedipus Complex from Vague’s Students!
To take a story and place a crazy or unrealistic hypothesis
on it doesn?t make it a theory?it just makes it a story with a suggested
implication; and if you can?t apply it to anything then how is it true?It is also made apparent that the male receives angered
thoughts of the father figure in his unconscious state of mind, while trying to
?win? the affection of the mother figure.It usually fails because the child realizes that the father
is much bigger and in such case, can?t succeed at killing him.The fact that there is a dearth of maternal figures in the
warlike struggle between father and son or the illation of the archetypes of
paternal personality in a story with no prominent women is not coincidental.Together they romp carelessly within the haven of the
immoral and the deviant.
Miscellaneous Words of Wisdom: Be Inspired by Student Aphorisms and Maxims!
Stories are often told in the order of chronological growth.
The use of the word darkness has two meanings, the literal
meaning of nighttime and the figurative meaning of an evil time.
At that point it has been propelled into the present and
lies along a regular mail route, intruding its location as one of oblivion and
becomes a sign of an unhappy history.
Limoges is porcelain which people see everyday in their
bathrooms. If their bathtub is not made of porcelain then it is certain that
their toilet is.
ugh, reading that stuff makes me tired. what do you say to them all? i mean, i imagine that the whole paper is just as bad (if not worse). how do you go about correcting that sort of thing without rewriting the whole paper?
and limoges whaaa? porcelain who? wtf?
Yeah, it isn’t pretty. The Limoges reference, by the way, is from a line from an Anne Sexton poem. Our young scholar unfortunately labors under the misconception that “limoges” is a synonym for “porcelain” (rather than a specific brand of it). Wish I had a toilet made by Limoges. 2 points to you on that one. If no one else contributes to this lousy thread, you may just win that prize!
Oh yeah: re: it making you tired, I think it’s a real scream, personally. I go into eye-watering hysterics just reading it. It’s the kind of laughter you can’t be sure isn’t weeping, though.
sorry, i can’t participate. i have been propelled into the present and am currently lying along a mail route, romping carelessly within the haven of the immoral and the deviant.
In the first one there definitely shouldn’t be an “and” after the questionable semicolon. In the third one, what is “it” and who is trying to kill whom? Cause it sounds like the father is bigger, but still can’t succeed. in the second one, arent’ we talking about the subconscious…can one have an unconscious state of mind? this is fun, gimme some more!
You get a point each for the first two observations, Mel, but as to your third point, yes, the unconscious is the appropriate term (though it’s questionable if not just clumsy to call it a “state of mind.”) I actually quibble mostly with “receiv[ing] angered thoughts.” That’s just painful.
It looks like a tied game at this point. Anyone else want to weigh in? This is fun!
i’m imagining a limoges toilet painted to resemble a flower cart, or something. hee. or a hat box. what is their deal with hat boxes? anyway…
i’m enjoying the bit about “darkness.” points off to that kid, though, because (s)he left out the band, “the darkness,” in his/her oh-so-broad definition of the term. so what, there’s the webster’s definition & the tolkien definition? see, the thing is, if there’s ONE way to interpret something figuratively, then there’s probably many more.
Good point, ninotchka. I’ll give you a point for that one. So, score is: mel: 2, ninotchka:3, students:-75.
Betch’all can’t wait until their Big, Super-Duper Longer FINAL papers come in! Ooooh, excitement.
Well, I’m still hung up on this porcelain hypothesis. Or has it become a Theory? If it is true, as Word of Wisdom #4 claims, that “If their bathtub is not made of porcelain then it is certain that their toilet is,” then it must also be true that “If their toilet is NOT porcelain, then the bathtub certainly must be.” However there exist dwellings in my part of the country wherein (or should I say, whereout) the toilet is made of wood, and the bathtub, being non-existent, is undefined. Thus the hypothesis is disproven. Whether or not it applies to anything.
Tee hee. Yes, this guy certainly forgot to account for any “undefined” bathtubs in his half-baked theory. The saddest part about Mr. Limoges’ assertion, though, is that it has absolutely nothing to do with the poems. Really nothing. *sigh* At least it has provided us with some interesting interwebs-based discussion, though, right?
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the “…is no coincidence” claim (Freud #4). I nominate it for Longest Noun-Phrase of the Week. Additional point of interest: it makes no sense (tip: look up “illation”).
These are my opinions. I should also point out that my grammar is appalling.
Freud#3, Ignoring the other problems shouldn’t it be “..succeed in killing him”.
Freud#4 could do with more punctuation or fewer words or ideally both.
Freud#5, is it possible to romp carefully in this context?
Misc#1, “..order of chronological growth”??????
Misc#2, technically isn’t the literal definition of darkness “absence of light”?
Misc#4, Limoges, far from being porcelain is actually a town in France. http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/gbr/dyn/controller/mapPerformPage?strLocation=Limoges&strCountry=eur
Oh, and I also know nothing about Freud.
Thanks for clearing up the Limoges bit for us, Chrismac. Sheesh, I never thought I’d be spending this much time thinking about that, be it a porcelain toilet, a town in France, or otherwise.
And re: our careless rompers, I think you’re right…unless the careful romp involved, say, some sort of protective headgear or kevlar vest.
Points to you: a whopping 7!
And points I forgot to give St Albert: 2