# More Freud-bashing by Cecil

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [September 12, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170 "2003-09-12T09:56:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170/41 "2003-09-15T12:26:09Z")

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**xavier** , run a search on the net/web for “Hopfield Neural Net”. You’ll be having a lot of fun. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Xiphos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/48db29/32.png) [@Xiphos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xiphos)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170/42 "2003-09-15T13:01:29Z")

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How many Freudians does it take to change a light bulb?

2

One to change the bulb, One to hold the penis, … the mother…the ladder!

sorry

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170/43 "2003-09-17T00:16:05Z")

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Heh.

“Only one, but the lightbulb really has to want to change.”

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**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170/44 "2003-09-17T01:53:36Z")

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Hmm, und how many do zink it vill take?

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**Author:** ![Dr.Cobweb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7c8e57/32.png) [@Dr.Cobweb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Cobweb)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170/45 "2003-09-17T13:13:00Z")

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It’s very interesting that you should focus on _changing a light bulb_, which involves _screwing_, driving the _shaft_ into the _receptacle_, causing the electricity to _flow_. Tell me: Did you like your father? What about your mother? Does my cigar suggest anything to you?

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**Author:** ![Wrenchslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/94ad74/32.png) [@Wrenchslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenchslinger)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170/46 "2003-09-17T16:23:45Z")

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“Sometimes a light bulb is JUST a light bulb.”

– a Neo-Freudian electrican

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-freud-bashing-by-cecil/201170/47 "2003-09-23T00:49:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Dr. Cobweb \*  
> **It’s very interesting that you should focus on _changing a light bulb_, which involves _screwing_, driving the _shaft_ into the _receptacle_, causing the electricity to _flow_.**

Which, as Wilhelm Reich (who was originally one of Freud’s proteges) will tell you, isn’t electricity at all, but orgone energy.

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