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It’s Friday the 13th again, and it’s Freudian Fridays again, so time for some subconscious slasher movie psychoanalysticle synergy. As Sigmund (or Siggy as we now call him) would tell you if he were still around and an avid consumer of splatterfest films (which he totally would be), killers in such movies are often motivated [...]

Now that the socialized collective year-end orgasm of popping champagne bottles of frothy fizz and massive fireworks explosions is over, it’s time for our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays. In this issue we indulge an urge we’ve been sublimating for some weeks now; we’re joining the trend of year-end lists by taking a Freudian look at [...]

In this first installment of our weekly psychoanalysticle series Freudian Fridays, we take a look at one of Western civilization’s most powerful myths and Sigmund Freud’s favorite bedtime story: Oedipus Rex.
For the unfamiliar, those who didn’t see it reenacted by Julianne Moore earlier this year in Savage Grace, and anybody else really, please refresh your [...]