I Don't Like Freud

Considering all the messes I get into, I don't know why I had always expected to die clean. Now that I thought about it, this seemed self-delusional.

Freud would have had a grand time analyzing my have-to-die clean complex. But then Freud was an ass.

-From Forever Odd a book By Dean Koontz-

In 11th grade Psychology when my teacher first started to talk about Sigmund Freud I disliked him strongly. Not just because his theories were junk but because he was high we he came up with them. Freud was a druggie. A coke head if I remember correctly. I know Sherlock Holmes is said to have been a user of sorts but the difference between Freud and Sherlock is that Sherlock didn't really exist and Freud's theories are being taught in schools. I am also aware that some poets were drug users and their works are taught in schools as well. For example Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan was taught in my English class my senior year and that man was obviously on something. The reader can tell when he came down because the poem's style changes suddenly. See if you can tell where. I am not trying to advocate drug use by any means but I think the poem was better when the guy was stoned. The difference is simple: Coleridge is poetry Freud is Psychology. Freud not thinking straight effects how we understand the human mind. Or, I guess, how we don't understand it (penis envy). Sorry I had to throw that in there.