{"id":2636,"date":"2008-05-30T13:52:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2008-05-30T17:39:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T22:39:37","slug":"liveblogging-my-seance-with-sigmund-freud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Jed Liveblogs His Seance With Sigmund Freud"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Note from Mitch:\u00a0 I got this from my “evil” twin brother, Jed.\u00a0 He believes in some funky stuff, including spiritualism and seances.\u00a0 While I post his occasional pieces, I don’t necessarily endorse his views<\/em>).<\/p>\n

“It’s come to my attention that certain local bloggers have been trying to invoke classical psychoanalysis in critiqueing blogs – namely, in this case, my brother Mitch’s.\u00a0\u00a0 In one rather febrile case, a local blogger attempted to co-opt Sigmund Freud in order to “analyze” (via the “inundation with stereotypes” modality) last week’s “Hot Gear Friday” on World War II firearms.<\/p>\n

So to set the record straight, I’m going to attempt to go to the source; I’m going to contact Doctor Freud himself in the next world<\/p>\n

I believe this may be a blog first; certainly it’s a first among MOB blogs.<\/p>\n

I’ve gathered some spiritualistic objects about me; I’m burning incense; I’m getting into a deep trance, attempting to commune with the spirits…<\/p>\n

…wow.\u00a0 He – or his spirit – has a Yahoo Chat account!\u00a0 Who knew?\u00a0<\/p>\n

I will include the transcript of the seance chat – the “chateance”, I guess – below.\u00a0 This should be exiting.<\/p>\n

SigFreud<\/strong>: Allo – wem hat mich abgewocht?<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg<\/strong>: Sorry to disturb you, Dr. Freud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

SigFreud<\/strong>: Kein Problem.\u00a0 Was ist denn deine frage?<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg<\/strong>:\u00a0 Thank you.\u00a0 I have just a couple of short questions…\u00a0<\/p>\n

SigFreud<\/strong>: Schie\u00df sofort!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg<\/strong>: Very well!\u00a0 First question: does your theory of “compensation” have the faintest thing to do with enjoying shooting?<\/p>\n

SigFreud<\/strong>: ROFMLAO!\u00a0 Solche Quatsch!\u00a0 Nee – regelm\u00e4sige waffeninteresse is <\/em>gesund!\u00a0 Es bedeutet ein wohle, gesunde…kraft in diesen welt!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg<\/strong>: “Kraft” – you mean in the sense of “Power, confidence, self-respect”, like that?<\/p>\n

SigFreud<\/strong>: Ja!\u00a0 Doch, nat\u00fcrlich!\u00a0 Mein beliebte wort daf\u00fcr is “Mojo”.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg<\/strong>: OK, thanks…<\/p>\n

SigFreud<\/strong>: …anders zum glauben is…krank!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg<\/strong>: Really?\u00a0 Do I hear you right – believeing otherwise is sick<\/em>?<\/p>\n

SigFreud:<\/strong> Ja!\u00a0 Bring die m\u00e4nner in die wei\u00dfe jacke!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg:<\/strong> The white jackets?\u00a0 Wow.\u00a0 That’s serious.<\/p>\n

SigFreud:<\/strong> Doch.\u00a0 N\u00e4chst!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg:<\/strong> OK.\u00a0 So say someone likes to make snarky comments about others…<\/p>\n

SigFreud:<\/strong> Das is ganz fabelhaft!\u00a0 Wenn mann “speaks his mind” in seine eigene name, das ist gar gesund!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg:<\/strong> Healthy?\u00a0 Sure – except it’s not “in their own name”.\u00a0 They’re all either anonymous, or talking through fake personas – like animals.\u00a0 Dogs.\u00a0 That kind of thing.<\/p>\n

(pause in transcript)<\/p>\n

SigFreud:<\/strong> So viel arbeit – und so wenig zeit.\u00a0 <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg:<\/strong> That bad?<\/p>\n

SigFreud:<\/strong> Es macht man m\u00fcde und… nah, sowieso “depressed”.\u00a0 Das ist alles.\u00a0 Beinahe gef\u00e4llt’s mir da\u00df ich Tod bin!\u00a0\u00a0 N\u00e4chst!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg:<\/strong> Wow.\u00a0 Harsh.\u00a0 OK, final question; doesn’t your very presence here in a seance from the afterlife refute your premises from Future of an Illusion <\/em>and Moses and Monotheism<\/em>?<\/p>\n

SigFreud:<\/strong> LOLOLOL!\u00a0 Ja.\u00a0 Schoi\u00dfe, nicht?<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg:<\/strong> Heh.\u00a0 You could say that!\u00a0 Well, Dr. Freud, thank you for your time!<\/p>\n

SigFreud: <\/strong>Kein Problem!\u00a0 Chu\u00df, und auf wiederschauen!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

JedBerg:<\/strong> And to\u00a0 you as well!<\/p>\n

SigFreud has logged off 12:02PM<\/font> <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The light is fading….fading…<\/p>\n

Wow.\u00a0 I’m back.\u00a0 Let me read the transcript…<\/p>\n

…oh,\u00a0crap.\u00a0 I forgot – Freud was Austrian!\u00a0 Well, dang.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I hope that’s of use to someone. \u00a0<\/p>\n

(Jed Berg, Mitch’s “evil twin”, contributes periodically to this blog.\u00a0 He is a forensic personal injury attorney living in Darrien, Connecticut.\u00a0 He is a life-long liberal Democrat, but will likely vote for McCain if the Dems nominate a candidate who is pro-choice, anti-gun, and pro-withdrawal from Iraq<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Note from Mitch:\u00a0 I got this from my “evil” twin brother, Jed.\u00a0 He believes in some funky stuff, including spiritualism and seances.\u00a0 While I post his occasional pieces, I don’t necessarily endorse his views). “It’s come to my attention that certain local bloggers have been trying to invoke classical psychoanalysis in critiqueing blogs – namely, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitchs-evil-twin-jed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}