And additionally, there is a psychological aversion to doodling thank you, Freud.

A complete Freudian relationship.

She is a follower of Freud.

What do you know about Freud?

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Why Kermit? she said, Kermit the Frog means nothing to me.

Freud originated psychoanalysis.

Freud originated psychoanalysis.

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Slip, my eye. That's Freud.

So let me go forward to the new science of happiness.

Nobody contributed to the understanding of dreams as much as Freud.

Well, you know what Freud said about the Irish?

So the ultimate goal of psychoanalytic psychotherapy was really what Freud called ordinary misery.

Let's ask Dr. Freud, who's just arrived.

Freud developed the love hate relationship between parents and child as the Oedipus complex.

That's probably why you wet the bed. Very Freudian, Jungian.

And they don't always work together.

I know where you're going with this, Dr. Freud, and you're wrong.

This has never made much sense to me, this argument.

And I think if I was Sigmund fucking Freud I wouldn't get an answer.

Thinkers and philosophers from Plato and Aristotle to Hobbes, Freud, and beyond, including anyone misguided enough to try to explain a joke, have pondered it, and no one has settled it.

I'm not saying I believe this, but this is the standard Freudian view.

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But if you go to Wikipedia, it says that he's the fourth most important psychologist in history

What was interesting about the Austrian school is they actually grew up alongside Freud.

What Freud said about the Irish is we're the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis.

Now, the most common interpretation of this, which you find in all the psychiatry textbooks, is a Freudian view, and that is that this chap and the same argument applies to women, by the way, but I'll just talk about guys.

I channel their history so that they have a place to go back to look at their life and its possibilities.

My field, the field of psychology, hasn't done a whole lot to help us move forward in understanding human happiness.

And one of the key points in the science of happiness is that happiness and unhappiness are not endpoints of a single continuum.

What those of us who suffer with mental illness want is what everybody wants in the words of Sigmund Freud, to work and to love.

It's a lovely example of the sort of thing we do take a bizarre, seemingly incomprehensible, neural psychiatric syndrome and say that the standard Freudian view is wrong, that, in fact, you can come up with a precise explanation in terms of the known neural anatomy of the brain.