History Main / FreudWasRight

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

-->"His ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to you, Mr. Ismay."

--->'''Frasier:''' In addition to the loveseat, let's see, your most recent acquisitions have been: a French bed- warmer, a pair of Toby jugs... the less said about that Civil War ramrod, the better.
--->'''Niles:''' Oh, you Freudians! Sometimes a ramrod is just a... oh hell, even I can't make that one fly.

--> "A great man once said, everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power."

--->'''Tom Servo:''' I wonder what Freud would make of that sun hat!
--->'''Crow:''' Well, sometimes a sun hat is just a sun hat.

-->'''Logan:''' So, what are we talking here? Short novel? Kafka length or longer? Dos Passos, Tolstoy? Or longer? Robert Musil? Proust? I'm not throwing you with these names, am I?
-->'''Jess:''' You seem very obsessed with length.

---> '''Martyn:''' What was it you told me to do? Earlier on, you told me to "fiddle with my pink slot" or something, when I was trying to plug the microphone into the computer...
---> '''Dan:''' I went "Make sure you're putting it in the pink slot", which you decided was incredibly funny!

The TropeNamer is Dr. UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, a Viennese doctor who proposed a theory of human behavior and development based on the idea that all our behaviours are ultimately expressions of instinctual, biological desires. Like, for instance, sex.

%%* ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity'': Mixed with DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything [[invoked]] in the case of the [[http://www.boring.org.uk/evo/ships/igzara.htm Igazra]].
* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'': [[spoiler:InUniverse, Dr. Schlomo's the TropeNamer, so this comes as a natural consequence. He's not ''always'' right, mind - for instance, he may interpret your dreams of [[FateWorseThanDeath Death By Water]] as a suppressed desire to return to the womb - but even so, his descriptions of Parabola are quite informative.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'': Shrek takes one look at Lord Faarquad's castle, which consists of an enormously tall keep, and says to Donkey "Do you think maybe he's {{compensating for something}}?"

See also CompensatingForSomething, EroticEating, LecherousLicking, OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe, PervertedSniffing, PhallicWeapon, and VisualInnuendo. Also compare EveryoneIsSatanInHell.

* ''Film/DearWhitePeople'': Kurt brings up ‘Pastiche’s motto, metaphorically saying that comedy and criticism should not hold back and hit raw nerves: ‘Sharpen thy sword’. One of the members thinks it’s a euphemism for [[ADateWithRosiePalms something else]].

%%** "Where the Wild Things Are": Anya tells Xander that the only thing they have in common is they both like his penis. Unless she was referring to ADateWithRosiePalms.

** The source of jokes in at least two episodes dealing with a characters OedipusComplex. In Season 5, when Roz reveals her pregnancy to Rick, he points out that his mother is the same age and even kind of looks like Roz. She makes him stop talking. In another episode, Frasier dates a woman who could be Hester Crane's twin.

** [[OedipusComplex Themes of openings and other tonic imagery (symbolic of the mother) being blocked by a masculine figure]] with [[PhallicWeapon phallic weapons]] that seek to stop your progress (symbolic of the father). This also applies to the protagonist needing to enter through deep dark caves for both progress and fulfillment in the story, symbolic of the [[FreudianExcuse Freudian desire]] to return to the womb.

%%* ''Manga/NanaToKaoru'': [[InUniverse Discussed in-story]] in [[spoiler:Kaoru's lecture on anal play]].

* Humanity's obsession with sex is implicitly discussed in Gary Gulman's bit about how the birth control pill is referred to as "the pill".

See also CompensatingForSomething, EroticEating, LecherousLicking, LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt, OrAreYouJustHappyToSeeMe, PervertedSniffing, PhallicWeapon, and VisualInnuendo. Also compare EveryoneIsSatanInHell.

[[caption-width-right:342:Our architect doesn't dick around.]]

%%* ''Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket'':[[invoked]] "Curse of the Jumbo Juju", English version only. Zenigata, while under the influence of the cursed ruby, makes some rather disturbing comments about his mother. This is neither the first nor last time it happens.

* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'': [[invoked]] [[http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1112 Rosenthal Industries]]. "So the building is ''intentionally'' penis-shaped, right?"

%%-->I have some pretty wild dreams you know. The other day I dreamt [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar there was this big tree, and I was sitting right on top of it... and then I dreamt I was a sausage roll]]...

See also CompensatingForSomething, EroticEating, LecherousLicking, LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt, PervertedSniffing, PhallicWeapon, and VisualInnuendo. Also compare EveryoneIsSatanInHell.

** ''Literature/GoingPostal'': Invoked by Adora Belle as she looks over Moist's ideas for stamp pictures; she notes that the stamp with the highest value has a picture of the Tower of Art at Unseen University -- the tallest building in the city.
--->'''Miss Dearheart:''' Oh, the Tower of Art... How like a man.
** ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'': "Magrat says a broomstick is one of them sexual metaphor things." (Footnote: Although this is a phallusy.)

When characters in story think that any kind of long thin shape is a symbolic penis, or that any hole that is oval is a symbolic vagina, you've got Freud Was Right in play. Obsession with sex is one of the core aspects of this trope when it's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.

%%** In ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'', John Smith is so potent that he has to get onto the boat while riding a giant phallic symbol.