#Freud Complex

[penhive]

Myth and Popular Culture

In this article, I would like to proceed by explaining what is myth and popular culture. Myth is a value system embedded in society and culture can be explicated as institutions that are propagated by society. In this article I would like to enunciate certain terms that program my writing and they are:

a) Abracadabra complex

b) Mesmer complex

c) Freud complex

(d Sphinx Complex

a) Abracadabra complex

Abracadabra complex is the magical influence exerted on the individual and its various forms are driven by social media and advertisements. Now what does social media and advertisements do?  They feed on the ego through a brainwashing manipulation. They embark upon a mental Halloween. With the advent of social media, humanity has become a slave of it. Yet there are some good features of social media that are fruitful as they picture news ignored by the mainstream media. Social media manufactures awareness of accessibility. Advertisements create an experience of adarchy (advertisement and anarchy). The individual is at a loss to make the right choices. Products are sold as manufactured consent.  The owners of social media and advertisements are driven by Nietzsche’s will to power and power and becomes as  a saleable commodity, a fetish of purchasing power.

(b Mesmer Complex

This is the second factor in Myth and Popular Culture. I would like to explain it by using Hegel’s master and the slave dialectic. The master and the slave is a dialectical relationship between myth and popular culture and the consumer. The relationship is a two way process of where the bourgeoisie capitalists are the masters and consumers are slaves. This is process of power sharing. The ego of the bourgeoisie is addicted with power strategies to make the sales optimum.  The master feeds on the narcissism of the slave. He propagates the myth of culture-stasis a peculiar condition of dominating the slave with the masturbation of tantalizing visual and sound content.

(c Freud Complex

Freud complex is a psychiatric aspect and the product sold by the bourgeoisie capitalist and it embodies a fetish deviant of attracting products. He perpetrates the catchy Aphrodite slogans, sexy Venus glitter and Zeus thundering sounds, all leading to the capitulating of interest. There is a collective narcissism of the ego and a gaffe of slavish psychosis which make the slave hooked on to the Gothic imagery and creating a feeble condition of cultural voyeurism.

(d Sphinx Complex

Sphinx complex is a peculiar phenomena of attachment felt by the consumer towards a product.  The consumer is forced to make choices from a plethora and here we have to examine whether it is the advertisements which make a mental surgery to hoodwink the subject in buying of a product. The choice that a consumer makes is highly irrational and is dependent on the upward-spin-tail of voyeuristic entertainment.

[federicaarmanni]

Rip Sigmund Freud, you would have loved House of the Dragon.

[rabiosantologia]

Sigmund Freud

♈ Bharani Sun (atmakaraka), Ashwini Venus (lagnesha) and Rahu in the 7H

♉ Rohini moon and Krittika Mercury in the 8H

♎ Swati ASC and Chitra Ketu in the 1H

♍ Hasta Mars (Rx) in the 12H in opposition with Uttara Bhadrapada ♓ Jupiter in the 6H

♊ Mrigashira Saturn in the 9H

[glitter-stained]

Hot take maybe but I think the distinction between "daddy issues" and "mommy issues" isn't so much a qualitative difference as it is an inherited relent of psychoanalysis we have integrated. Y'all have parent issues.

[bluesky-out-of-context]

[batbusiness-schooldropout]

I really hate the Oedipus complex. For a lot of reasons but I'll focus on its name today. Oedipus DIDN'T KNOW he was sleeping with his birth mother and when he found out he GOUGED OUT HIS OWN EYES. And you want to name a made-up complex about fantasizing about your mother after that? Ridiculous.

Don't even get me started on the Electra complex

[cxndiedvi0lets]

I like older men

Well... anon, I'm not sure how to respond to that.

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[onnahu]

I didn't expect to open my polish textbook today to see a whole ass 4 pages about freud

[cannibalisticsamdean]

the sheer YEARNINGGGG in dean’s eyes when he looks at (djinn dream) mary is so… AREGHHJJH im biting my fist holy shit … the hand touch.. the way he leans into it………… dont talk to me

[rotor25]

[sherbertilluminated]

One of the premises of Don Karlos (1787) is that there is a love triangle involving father and son competing for the affection of another person who represents an oppressed and defeated enemy country.

The midshow plot twist is that there are TWO such love triangles

[trashblog-things]

i hate to bring it up honestly but i feel like its kind of an important detail of his character. this is why his abandonment issues are off the charts and why he is incapable of having that normal happy family with claudia that he wanted. hes never had people who love him enough to stay, not even his mom. hes never known what an actual loving family looks like.

gabrielle and lestats relationship makes me so sad

[clarablightt]

Sigmund Freud is the OGMF

(original mother fucker)

[3cosmicfrogs]

convinced im the only one who understands ogata as a character

[velvet-vox]

Oropo; the ideology of power behind being god: Part 3

Doing an analysis on Oropo proved to be a messy, disorganised process, not all that different from the actual character's actions themselves.

Every time I have tried doing this, I ended up saying nothing worthwhile and mostly just rumbled for a bit without reaching any meaningful conclusion; but I feel like I've finally found something that's actually important and can help the discussions surrounding the character.

Buckle up cause it's time for me to introduce to you all a little something also known as:

The complex of Oedipus

Conceived in 1909 by the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the Complex of Oedipus is a section of the written paper "Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy" in which Freud outlined the fear of horses of a boy known as "Little Hans".

The psychoanalyst determined that the boy's terror was due to feelings of anger he had internalised. According to Freud, all small boys choose their mother as their primary object of desire. They subconsciously wish to usurp their father and become their mother's lover. These desires appear between the ages of 3 and 5, when a boy is in what Freud defines as the "phallic" stage of development.

This stage represents an important point in the formation of sexual identity. The analogous experience for girls is known as the Electra complex, in which girls feel a desire for their father and jealousy of their mother. The child, however, suspects that acting on these feelings would lead to danger, thus he/she represses his/her desires. This leads to anxiety.

In order to resolve the conflict, the boy then identifies with his father and the girl with her mother. It is at this point that a superego is formed; it becomes an internalisation of the parental figure that strives to suppress the ID's impulses and make the ego act upon these idealistic standards.

The ID, ego and superego are, as described by Freud, the three main parts of the human mind that develop our personality through their interactions.

The ID is the most primitive. Within the ID are all the inherited components of personality we are born with, including the sex instinct, the Eros and the instinct towards aggression. The ID operates entirely unconsciously; it does not change with time or experience, since it is not related to the external world.

The ego is the rational, pragmatic part of our personality. It's less primitive than the ID and is both conscious and unconscious; it represents what may be called reason and common sense. Freud used the word "ego" to mean a set of psychic functions such as judgment, tolerance, reality testing, control, planning, defense, synthesis of information, intellectual functioning and memory.

The superego is concerned with social rules and morals, and covers what many would refer to as "conscience". It develops around the age of 3-5 and it consists of two systems: the conscience and the ideal self. The conscience is a part that can punish the ego by making it feel guilty. The ideal self, on the other hand, creates an imaginary picture of how you ought to be, and deals with ambition and social behaviour, including how you treat others and how to be a useful member of society.

According to Freud, the ID, ego and superego, are in constant conflict so that adult personality and behaviour are directly from the results of these internal childhood struggles.

The parallels

So, now that we have established what the Complex of Oedipus is, it is time to see how it connects back to our deranged owl man and to the entire race of the Eliotropes.

At this point though, I have to make a brutal yet sad confession: I have not watched the fourth season of Wakfu nor the Oropo special with all of the new Eliotropes, so all I'm going to focus entirely on Oropo for this analysis and hope that somebody else who has watched season 4 can piece together what aspects of Freud research are present in which Eliotrope and how it all ties back to Yugo.

For now, we can see how the first four paragraphs of the document have unsettling similarities to the entire concept and actions of Oropo and the Eliotropes.

Now, we need to consider that Freud at the time probably didn't take bisexuality and other gender identities as things an individual was born with; because in the case of the Electra complex we need to remember that all female Eliotropes are canonically lesbians, as reiterated by @cocogum in this post , thus, the more modern (or at least the most Wakfu relevant) interpretation of the two complexes that we should consider is: "the child wish to usurp the parent whose at the recieving end of the kid's sexual attraction, and to overcome said urge, identifies with that parent". I could make a different case for bisexuality, but it's not relevant.

The important thing about these two complexes is explaining why Oropo feels so much attraction for Amalia to not be able to contain himself even with Lady Echo. The entire concept behind the Eliotropes is that they were incomplete parts of Yugo that came into existence by accident and couldn't survive nor have an identity of their own without Yugo.

For how much Oropo plays himself up as this secretive master planner, he's actually a mere sexually repressed clone-child that's unable to grow up due to the very nature of his existence.

Finally appreciating canon Oropo: the trilogy's finale.

I feel like, once I learned about the connection between Sigmund Freud and Oropo, I finally started to care a little bit about the guy and the entirety of the Eliotrope's race. Granted, this analysis does fix the many problems and qualms I have with the character; like, if his writing problems limited themselves to the season 3 finale then I could pass it off as just the sad, miserable conclusion of a doomed existence, but no. Unfortunately, Oropo has problems even in the manga and ova created solely to expand on his character, it's like Tot is completely unable to give his writing pet the necessary traits to make him an antagonist worthy of the Wakfu's standards, and instead just uses him for cool visuals and to fill in the untold parts of the lore.

He came up with a truly brilliant concept reminiscing the psychoanalysis of the 19th century, and couldn't find a way to explore said concept in a meaningful way because he had to turn it into a fight. Naturally, this isn't just a Wakfu problem, this is an anime and media problem at large, where we necessarily have to resolve conflicts into a battle because otherwise the audience could feel bored and disinterested in the final product.

This is a problem that carries over to the Avatar franchise, where the creators tried to have meaningful political commentary and couldn't find a meaningful way to have it that didn't involve a fight, because, if they don't turn it into a fight of good and evil, then the audience could feel scared at the prospect of such a challenging, morally compromising story.

To me, Oropo would have been a far more interesting character if he just wanted to overthrow the gods for their selfishness and wanted Yugo to approve his decisions because he was his creator and he loved him.

Could have made for a far more interesting story than just simply going back to the status quo and compromising it only through the inclusion of the Necromes, who pretty much just sought destruction and didn't really change the hierarchy in a meaningful manner.

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