On the rejection of Freud, love of Marx in young people interested in Critical Theory: ( @anniemcclanahan actually had a real analysis, mine is pure fantasy fiction) -- Psychoanalysis is like the ring in Lord of the Rings. No one can withstand its power. 1/2

Esp not Hobbits. Behaviorists are like Sauron tho, they serve the evil disembodied "eye": humans are Marxists without the ring, elves are Deleuzians, orcs are orcs and dwarves are economists trying to dig up gold without a theory of the unconscious. 2/2 but one more

This was just me thinking about the resistance to psychoanalysis in my students I began to encounter in 2002 and trying to make sense of their disdain for Freud and their love of anything else, be it Foucault or Badiou or even Lacan. I was like what has happened to Middle Earth?