Successful Semester of Freud--Celebrated by Comics!

Congrats everybody for a successful semester of Freud!! I feel that the end of a Freudian Semester should be celebrated by suck comics:

College Musical

It may be a bit unrelated but it made me laugh, so basically this a series on youtube made by students at Yale called College Musical. You can watch the whole thing if you want (I think it's funny and really well made) the songs, scripts, filming etc is all student done. This episode had a song that was really Freudian and for a while I was like, should I post it? is it stupid? but considering the class is almost over and it made me laugh, perhaps it will make you laugh too.

So here is the link, you can fast forward to the end when its a guy and a girl sitting on opposite sides of a desk for the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PswMFzhOGgw

Clear solution to sexual problems...

So in response to Maisha's comment about ambiguity and/or STDs preventing people from hooking up, I offer a solution:

Everything is OK

These are ideas worth spreading if you ask me. I know it isn't Freudian but it certainly is a commentary on civil society and the current cultural context we all live in. It's also hilariously provoking us to question our quiet obedience in a system we're all a part of. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did.

Creativity in Education

This is the video that I referenced in class. It loosely relates to our discussions today about education and ideas of 'knowing'. It also coincidentally ties in with Jackie's post below on dancing. Either way I think it's an amazing talk.

Also, if you're interested in reading about what types of discussion it generated amongst a bunch of British folk you can take a look here: http://webakestuff.co.uk/blog/page/3/

Fear of automata?

Are we afraid of losing our place in an increasingly-machinated world?

Clearly The Truman Show, The Stepford Wives, and Brave New World agree. Let's see what the internet has to say about this:





Yeah, perhaps.



Also, Mr. Schwarzenegger, of the Viennese school of thought demonstrates the unheimlich of cloning (doppelgangers!)

Are We Human? Or are We Dancers?

So I was reading the Uncanny and it said how the Sandman leaves the reader unsure of what is human and what is an automaton. This reminded me of the Killers Song Human. lyrics can be found here:

http://www.metrolyrics.com/human-lyrics-the-killers.html

To me it seems like the song is asking what is the difference between a human and something that is cold, and almost robotic. (This is absolutely not a slight against dancers, personally I think dance is a beautiful art form) but when I've danced (and I'm certainly not a dancer) the movements are choreographed, it is a large group of people all doing the same thing at the same time, and it doesn't mean anything.

So what makes Dance beautiful?

The first time I heard this song I thought of the "Dancers" as free spirits, but the more i listened to it, it seemed that they were comparing dancers to robots. We've all seen dancers that do the movements with perfect technique... but they have something missing, something off. They lack emotion and passion, something that skill can't make up for. Dancers who dance without emotion.... are just dancers, not humans, but automatons or robots. In order to turn dance into an art form, you have to put the human part of you first, let your emotions come into your work, feel something, feel purpose, feel passion. That is what makes dance beautiful, that is what makes any form of art beautiful.