| Sigmund Freud (Or How I Tried To Read Something Clever and Ended Up Feeling Retarded) God... I wanted to uh... "better myself" last year, so one day went into Fopp and just bought lots and lots of cheap books that I thought would help me, I dunno... "grow as a person" or some shit like that. I bought some classics that I'd never read before, and I bought an Introduction to Islam book. I also bought some of those "Penguin Great Ideas" books:
On the Pleasure of Hating - William Hazlitt
Civilization and its Discontents - Sigmund Freud
And what I can understand of Freud is interesting, I suppose, but I can't get my head around most of it. Should I be reading a beginners guide first, or an earlier work? Maybe that is his earliest work, I don't know... All I know is, I want to learn, but I'm finding either his writing difficult, or the subject itself, and it's making me feel like a big ol' window licker.
__________________ A guy in Dumfries had to replace his mother's sofa because he'd fucked it.
"Why did he have to replace it?" we wondered.
"Because he'd cut a hole in it." said Andrew, authoritively.
I ventured that I would just have gone at it between the cushions.
There's more than one way to fuck a couch. |