shit-phase
Original: shit-phase on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (header banner): ACTUAL SIGMUND FREUD.
Freud (a bearded older man in a suit and red tie, pointing): "The boy is past his shit-obsession phase, into his penis-obsession phase, but he is intimidated by his father's large penis and secretly wants to impregnate his mother but cannot, and THAT is why he has anxiety."
Panel 2 (header banner): POPULAR SCIENCE TREATMENTS OF FREUD.
A man with glasses (gesturing to himself): "And it was Freud who discovered children have feelings!"
Votey:
A simply-drawn face speaking: "Before Freud, humans never considered that sometimes humans feel some way."
Freud (a bearded older man in a suit and red tie, pointing): "The boy is past his shit-obsession phase, into his penis-obsession phase, but he is intimidated by his father's large penis and secretly wants to impregnate his mother but cannot, and THAT is why he has anxiety."
Panel 2 (header banner): POPULAR SCIENCE TREATMENTS OF FREUD.
A man with glasses (gesturing to himself): "And it was Freud who discovered children have feelings!"
Votey:
A simply-drawn face speaking: "Before Freud, humans never considered that sometimes humans feel some way."
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic contrasting the real Freud with pop-science portrayals of him. Panel 1, labeled "ACTUAL SIGMUND FREUD," shows bearded Freud in a suit pointing and saying his theory in graphic, jargon-laden detail: the boy is past his shit-obsession phase and into his penis-obsession phase, is intimidated by his father's large penis, secretly wants to impregnate his mother but cannot, and THAT is why he has anxiety. Panel 2, labeled "POPULAR SCIENCE TREATMENTS OF FREUD," shows a mild bespectacled man saying, "And it was Freud who discovered children have feelings!" The joke is the absurd gulf between Freud's actual bizarre theories and the sanitized, trivial version pop science credits him with. Votey: a crudely drawn face declares, "Before Freud, humans never considered that sometimes humans feel some way" — mocking the idea that Freud invented the concept of having emotions.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.