WILTIMS #130: Metaphorical iceberg off the starboard bow!

Well, I survived at least one of yesterday's tests (further grades pending)! Thankfully we have no more exams until after spring break. I don't think I've ever anticipated a spring break as much as this one. I'm not going anywhere terribly interesting or planning any rowdy debauchery, but just sitting/sleeping for a while sounds amazing.

Freud's iceberg metaphor for the mind

Today in Behavioral Science we started talking about psychoanalysis, including Freud's id, ego, and superego. Amusingly, the last time I learned about Freud was in the hardest class to explain on my college transcripts: German 187: Satan in German Literature. This was taught in English, not German, and basically consisted of watching horror films and pretending like there was some connection with legitimate academic thought. Bizarre interpretations of Freud came up frequently. I somehow got upper-division writing credit for this and (to my knowledge) not one med school challenged me when I used this as one of my writing prerequisites. Good times.

TIL: While denial, distortion, and projection are considered narcissistic defenses, neurotic defenses include dissociation, displacement, repression, rationalization, isolation, and intellectualization.