freudian
Original: freudian on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman with orange/auburn hair: Why do you think so many people believed Freudian psychology?
Woman with dark hair and glasses: It's a form of repression.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses: You convince yourself that we're all monsters under our skin, that our still waters hide dark and mysterious oceans. That the primal is forever ready to burst forth at any moment if we didn't heroically stuff it down for the sake of civilization.
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: But actually we're on Earth to eat and bone and everything else is window dressing.
Panel 4:
Woman with orange hair: What a horrific thought.
Woman with glasses: Uh, I mean we all want to cut off penises and eat our parents or whatever!
Woman with orange hair: Thank you. Thank you for that.
Votey:
Woman with orange hair (off-panel speech, pointing at a downcast face): I guess I'm scared of you now.
I'm scared of you now.
Woman with orange/auburn hair: Why do you think so many people believed Freudian psychology?
Woman with dark hair and glasses: It's a form of repression.
Panel 2:
Woman with glasses: You convince yourself that we're all monsters under our skin, that our still waters hide dark and mysterious oceans. That the primal is forever ready to burst forth at any moment if we didn't heroically stuff it down for the sake of civilization.
Panel 3:
Woman with glasses: But actually we're on Earth to eat and bone and everything else is window dressing.
Panel 4:
Woman with orange hair: What a horrific thought.
Woman with glasses: Uh, I mean we all want to cut off penises and eat our parents or whatever!
Woman with orange hair: Thank you. Thank you for that.
Votey:
Woman with orange hair (off-panel speech, pointing at a downcast face): I guess I'm scared of you now.
I'm scared of you now.
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Two women talk under a starry night sky. The orange-haired woman asks why so many people believed Freudian psychology; the dark-haired woman with glasses answers, "It's a form of repression." She explains that Freudianism convinces you everyone is a monster under their skin, with dark hidden oceans and a primal self forever ready to burst forth unless heroically suppressed for the sake of civilization. (A small inset shows a shadowy monstrous figure with raised arms.) She concludes, "But actually we're on Earth to eat and bone and everything else is window dressing." The orange-haired woman recoils: "What a horrific thought." The glasses woman backpedals reassuringly, "Uh, I mean we all want to cut off penises and eat our parents or whatever!" The other replies flatly, "Thank you. Thank you for that." In the votey aftercomic, the orange-haired woman, now visibly unsettled, points and says, "I guess I'm scared of you now. I'm scared of you now," looming over a downcast, wide-eyed face.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.