Status Updates From The Unconcept: The Freudian...

So, Freud thinks the loss of one's eyes is the fear of castration misplaced. I'm not sure if I can finish this. I'll give it a final push, though.

I've read more about castration anxiety than I think I ever will again.

This book is really well written, but I am already tired of reading about Freud and castration/surpassing the father/having parents interrupt masturbation/abandonment issues. Everything hard is a penis, and everything uncanny is a vagina or guilt at something you were able to do that your father wasn't.

"[....] Theory is a complex mixture of a genuine passion for thinking, opportunistic institutional reasoning, and slavish submission to fashionable master thinkers.... risks becoming trivial and meaningless. Theory in this sense is not a solid foundational construction like philosophy but a hybrid genre in which conceptual, historical, creative, and fictional discourses interact.

"As was pointed out in 'The Uncanny', female genitalia evoke fright, therefore they may serve as a weapon: "What arouses horror in oneself will produce the same effect upon the enemy against whom one is seeking to defend oneself" (Freud 1940c, 274)."

Damn, Freud had some serious issues. Well, glad to know I always carry a weapon.