#pyschoanalysis

[nuclearmaple]

The Eroticism of the Armpit and the Touhou Fandom:

A (Very Serious) Psychoanalysis

(Warning: Light mature topic, sleep depravity writing, jokepost)

Deep within the Touhou fandom lies an erotic fixation on the fictional 2D characters' armpits. To investigate the inner depths of this fetish and deconstructing this meme into the minds of the view who indulges in this depravity. Underneath this perversion of Reimu, we can explain the deeper meaning behind such a fetish.

I. Fandom's Symptom

While the fetishization of the armpit goes far back before the Touhou fandom and can be found in other media, it has created a home in this specific community. The meme is often shown humorously because how absurd the concept is, but once a joke infects the mind to actually enjoy the perversion of the armpit.

II. Nature of the Fetish

The armpit is neither fully erotic or fully innocent. It is distant to anything in conversational intercourse, yet close to the Real, Lacan terms for the impossible in language, being odor, hair, and sweat. Desire of the armpit can be trance to it being hidden. A fantasy is built around the armpit while avoiding anything truly pure sexual.

Fetish of the armpit plays as the object petit a, desire coming from symbolization. In another way of looking at is as a phallus, a wish to have in the sexual life of the man (or a woman or others).

III. The Imagination and 2D

The world of Gensokyo is one of fiction and two-dimensional art built on the creator and fandom's imagination. The nature of leaving the real world and the general more skill it takes to make 3D models, it being 2D allows easy access for the brain to go wild and make content. While a real person has normal sense of what about them is beautiful, the 2D anime woman can have features elevated.

Removing the objections of real people makes the objector more easy on the mind. The elevation of insufficient parts of the body the 2D world brings is the origin of the armpit fetish in Touhou and can also link to others like thighs. An artist or the mind can create an image of a detailed armpit to their liking; a reflection of their selves. In a way, the ideal ego and libidinal in the fandom.

This is all in contrast to the media's light tones. Lack of sexuality in the games or manga.

IV. Armpit Miko

Anyone who sneaks a look into the Touhou community will be familiar with the protagonist Reimu Hakurei. First looking at her, you will notice her shrine maiden out, her sleeveless top, detached sleeves, and exposed armpits. The detached sleeves and her top create a gap to be filled in with one's desire.

How come this not fully innocent nor fully sexual way of erotic projection? Reimu has a character is not a seducer, sexual, and as a clear mission in her games. Because of this lack of serialization, it becomes easier to put this partial drive onto her. Her role in the series allows her to become a vessel of the player, a symbol of the fan's desires.

The armpit miko meme as become a pathway for the Touhou fan. a sacred thing they most be exposed to, and may either accept or decline it in one's life. Touhou is a game full of sacred Japanese imagery and Reimu's sacred role.

V. Asexuality and Just a Meme

As an aroace person, it easy to not subscribe to Freud and Lacan theories. But I argue that there is still desire in asexual and aromantic people deep in, just very differently than allo people. This is basically a sleep deprived rant using books I read before to apply to a funny idea I had.

What makes the psychoanalyzing of this inside joke in the fandom interesting is the absurdity of taking time to write this or read this. The same reason why there is deeper meaning in the joke, the hidden meaning of the absurdity.

VI. Conclusion

In all the absurdity of the armpit joke (and this post), its a way of the Touhou fandom to connect with desire. The Real in motion is by creating jokes to indulge in. Absurd libido is symbolized in the armpits, that is where the Touhou fan finds theirs.

:Troll: You read this, you just got Gnome :Troll:

None of this is any stance of philosophy or psychoanalysis, this is a joke.

[julianworker]

Book Review - Jacques Lacan - The Basics

This is a really useful book for people who want to know more about Jacques Lacan. Now, I can’t claim to know and understand all that Lacan put forward having read the book, but I’m certainly closer to understanding some things. What this book does really well is explain the ideas of OTHER people in the areas of language and pyschoanalysis such as Sigmund Freud and Ferdinand de Saussure who have…

[ourlittleuluru]

I got my hands on the new Promise Memory for Xavier and I just can't.... He's so pouty at that one part 😭

So.. maybe spoilers??? It's really only one line but... just be fairly warned :c

The first time I heard it in my usual CN dub I could not stop laughing because it's just so cute (with the very kid-like expression)

And of course now I have to go listern to that one "Ah." in every language... for research!

It's so interesting how even just this one "Ah." is so differently voiced out in each of the languages.

The way that small pouty disappointment sounds.

CN and EN both lean towards a more "disappointed" tone. with CN sounding more pouty to me. EN just sounds like he lost energy. just sad over it.

JP was more reluctant. And KR just straight up, a hmph. 😂

This is so interesting...! (just how many times can I re-use the same exact word in one post...? yes... Vocab brain cell did not call in for work today)

[reverentwormpriest]

today I learned that watching evangelion might impact you much more than the average joe if you have self worth issues long running issues with loneliness and dissasociation all in that order 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

fiddleford: well, i think that's how they do it. they hurt you and then bring you back in with kindness, so you become reliant on them and-

stan: WOAH WOULD YOU LOOK AT THE TIME, it's getting late, time for you to head home hAH HAH-

ford: (internal screaming)

[bending-sickle]

speaking of "obsessive research", let's look at this quote that was stuck into this chapter:

"Sexuality is something that surprises us and takes us places we didn't expect to go. Why else does psychoanalysis spend so much time delving into desire and sexual identity?

— Kenji Yoshino, law professor, Yale University"

why do we have a law professor talking about psychoanalyis and sexuality? why is vicki quoting him? what are these choices?

from the wiki:

"Kenji Yoshino (born May 1, 1969) is a legal scholar and the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University School of Law.[1] Formerly, he was the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His work involves constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, civil and human rights, as well as law and literature, and Japanese law and society."

still an odd choice for a quote on psychoanalysis (not psychology: pyschoanalysis is a very specific set of theories and frameworks) as it regards to sexuality.

but then:

"His first book Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights was published in 2006. It is a mix of argument intertwined with pertinent biographical narratives. His second book, A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice was published in 2011. In 2016, his book Speak Now: Marriage Equality on Trial was published and received the Stonewall Book Award's Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award.

Covering won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-Fiction from Publishing Triangle in 2007. His major areas of interest include social dynamics, conformity and assimilation, as well as queer (LGBT) and personal liberty issues. He has been a co-plaintiff in cases related to his specialties."

how much y'all wanna bet the quote is from that Covering book, or from promotional interviews for it? which would be great context for the quote, and not just "a law professor from an Ivy league university".

- Chapter 5: Discovering the Inner Queer, The Threesome Handbook: A Practical Guide to Sleeping with Three (2007) by Victoria (Vicki) Vantoch

[littlebitmagic]

i need to make more pyschoanalysis friends on here...

[onetwofeb]

(Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour)

[rotgospels]

Freud related the myth-grammar at work in us to the constellations of the family: to the tragically Greek "house." The psyche's layered contents reflect the structure of relationships within a home. Troy I, Troy II, Troy VIII . . . Secret, incestuous, murderous... The unconscious is the emblem of the labyrinth, the first royal "house," the house which is also, in myth, a maze which conceals its own shame, its subterranean bull violence.

Ruth Padel, excerpt from “Labyrinth of Desire: Cretan Myth in Us”

[grandhotelabyss]

It makes, then, complete sense that she should have such a loathing for modern art, which, along with the emergent field and discourse of psychoanalysis, disputed the very idea of a singular, unified self (Freud was only three years younger than Van Gogh, and the germs of psychoanalysis had begun to spread by the time of the latter’s death). In Gadsby’s world, and the world of #MeToo, the self begins as a unified entity, is broken by trauma, but is healed by storytelling, which returns the self to its moment of truth.

Yasmin Nair, “No, No, Nanette: Hannah Gadsby, Trauma, and Comedy as Emotional Manipulation”

[simin-ma-blog]

Psychoanalysis

Founded by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis is a set of theories and techniques that study the human’s unconscious mind. Established in the early 1860s, Freud proposed that there are 2 main sections of the mind- the Conscious and the Unconscious. The Conscious is the thoughts that we are aware of and it is only the tip of the iceberg of our mind. While the unconscious makes up most of our mind and it is the fundamental foundation of our personalities and behaviours.  Hence Freud believed that by analysing our mind and making conscious of the unconscious mind, he can lift the repressed emotions and cure his patients. This idea revolutionised and pioneered the study of psychology and the treatments to mental illnesses.

The study of psychology and psychoanalysis is a vast and whole new territory to me, and at first glance, it seems to be completely irrelevant to the discipline of design. However, given more thoughts, there is a lot more connection between the two subjects than one would think. I believe that it is extremely important and relevant for us designers to have some understanding of psychology and how the human mind thinks. This is because the core of designs is its clients, the intended audience. We are designing for a living person/ people. Hence, by understanding the human psyche and how they might act, we can create a design that will resonate and respond well with the intended audience.

Additionally, the study of the mind is a great tool when designing. The idea of the unconscious mind is such a bizarre but fascinating concept, and it can act as a great source of inspirations. The subject has inspired generations of artist and designers, with the most well-known to be Salvador Dali and the surrealism movements. Because the unconscious mind has no constraints or limit to creativity, therefore I believe that there are endless possibilities and ideas that we can get hold of if we explore the subject in depth.

[dreamsy990]

i started noticing a pattern in how i draw apollo sitting because for some reason like 2/3 times i just. he do this

[theogony]

reading through my old fics is like bro that's a lot of flames. that's a. oh another fire metaphor huh and uh. bro that's. that's another fire. oh and a fire there oh whoo boy that's a sad plot point but oh fire fire flame allegory woah

[styrofauxm]

I'm 3 days into my psych class and already regretting it.

[blackhermionegrangers]

girl what in the hell is this sifhosjfjsj

[bloodandthestars]

everyone’s theories on the game are so good wtf. The Leander ones?????? The KURAS ones???? DONT GET ME STARTED ON THE PYSCHOANALYSIS POSTS ON AIS I EAT THEM UP