Utter crap

[abka]

Ok bizzare-art-historians-who-somehow-got-these-wacko-theories-published-in-major-art-journals you are not going to convince me that Homer's  
The Gulf Stream is an Oedipal statement about the artist's ambivalent feelings toward his father (as opposed to plausible theories about it being a metaphor for the difficult position of blacks in post-Reconstruction America), then you are going to convince me that the crows in Homer's The Fox Hunt are flying penises or that the haystacks in Weaning the Calf are breasts, and multicultural (one black, one white) breasts at that. Why or why do we still love Freud? If I turned in any theory that like for my paper, my professor would not be impressed, and yet, he assigned this reading.

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[mrsjadephoenix.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's incredibly silly. Freudian analyses are always good for a laugh! I'm sorry you have to endure reading so much of it though. I took a Comp Lit course on Psychoanalytic readings of literature before I understood how ridiculous most of Freud's ideas were and I did not do so well in it because my professor was really into it and I totally didn't buy 95% of it.