What Freud would say about your new vices?
I have risen from the dead to see how the human psyche has been tracking.
Image Credit: Bonnie Huang
Oh, society of the 21st century. How you torture me with your ways. You invoke me with your verbal fumbles and uncouth attractions, interrupting my eternal slumber. Hence, I have risen from the dead to see how the human psyche has been tracking… imagine my surprise to witness society in its abysmal state…
Whilst I was in my prime, I, Sigmund Freud, theorised endlessly about the vices that gripped our society in a chokehold. But alas, in my absence, human degeneracy has mutated into new variants, revealing new glimpses into the machinations of the psyche…
Phone addiction
The last thing you caress before you sleep, the first thing you run to as you wake. Like a child to a deteriorating rag, you can’t tear yourself away. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, indeed!
The glowing screen is nothing other than a cathectic object, in which you invest your emotional energy. The cathexis of objects with libidinal charge is not new, but reaches a fever pitch with these — how do you say — iPhones. The urge for this object rests in the id of the mind. Carnal, and primitive, your unconscious psychological energy runs overtime craving the rectangular plate of wonders; clutching at empty pockets in a frenzy, desperately searching for this object, only to soothe themselves with a mental image of it.
Fooling the id is all it is — if one desires to scratch their primordial brain, they don’t need a phone, they need a scalpel!
Vaping
Filling the modern sordid streets is light, fruity-flavoured vapour. As I forge through the sordid madness, blueberry swirls enter my nostrils unannounced and unsolicited. The culprit: a gleaming cylindrical tube you clutch and bring up to your pursed lips. The human obsession with the mouth is not new — the surge of cigar-puffing in my day was clearly linked to an oral fixation. But why are adults so drawn to the mouth, you ask?
The answer is simple, and psychosexual! Hemitaxia, the oral stage, is the first phase of psychosexual development, where infants navigate the biting and sucking reflex. However, if conflicts occur during this stage, the psyche remains regressed, stuck in this primitive stage. Alas, all vapers are sniffling infants. I prescribe hours of talk-therapy!
Posting about your trip to Europe
Photos in front of picturesque Positano, sublime Santorini and majestic Marseilles. Plaguing everyone’s feeds. It appears the modern generation is addicted to exhibiting themselves in front of a European backdrop; it feels apt here to turn to my illustrious works on narcissism.
Narcissism is driven by the two forces that make the world go ‘round — love, and libidinal energy. I see it seeping through every travel post, every selfie, dripping with sexual desire. Beware of your self-attraction!
Now, I must drift back into my undying sleep — but watch your vices, lest I rise again!