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Recently we started shopping for office-appropriate furniture for Listicles headquarters, and we concluded in a brainstorming session that our workplace should look cool and sexy. Logically, then, we began searching for “cool furniture” (which mostly lead us to refirgerator wholesalers) and “sexy furniture,” which produced some interesting – though office-inappropriate - results. As our friend [...]

Today is the first day of spring and somewhere, we hope, flowers are blooming, bulbs germinating and seeds sprouting. With its various metaphors of birth and bursting, plant life makes for an apt sexual symbol, which is why this edition of our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, showcases nearly explicit footage of flowers blooming. You don’t [...]

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 [...]

An article in yesterday’s New York Times explains that new fossils and artifacts found in northern Kazakhstan suggest horses were likely domesticated as early as 3500 B.C., or about one millennium sooner than previously thought. While this is apparently a landmark discovery, we’re not terribly surprised. As we’ll show in this edition of our weekly [...]

Thank the Father it’s Freudian Fridays! In this edition of our weekly psychoanalystical where we turn Sigmund loose all over the fields of contemporary pop culture we’ll be looking at technological doo-dads that are more than they claim to be. Living in a technophilic age as we do, it’s no surprise that the imagery of [...]

A while ago we alerted you, dear readers, to knowledge that already lay waiting deep in your subconscious: the buildings we inhabit, vehicles we travel in and weapons we fight with are loaded with repressed sexual symbolism.
Well, as you’ve likely noticed the visual punditry can be extended to foods. Yes, many have made dirty jokes [...]

As we’ve reported in previous editions of our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays, phallic forms are among the most potent and clearly legible symbols of power in our patriarchal capitalist society. Though it’s strategically dangerous to represent phallic power with an actual penis (which is perpetually vulnerable and, by and large, not that impressive), elongated objects [...]

Looking over this year’s Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, one legendary female character archetype – the phallic mother – looms large in The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (is Harvey Milk a proxy phallic mother to the gay rights movement in Milk? discuss). We’ll therefore be taking this edition of our [...]

We’ve often focused our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, on the symbolism of the spaces we travel, work and celebrate in to demonstrate that architecture and design are full of psychosexual implications. This isn’t limited to buildings and vehicles though, even furniture in your home can reveal a lot about, say, your relationship to your mother.
That’s [...]

Last time our weekly psychoanalysticle ended on a video of an airplane flying suggestively through a monument. Though the video served to help illustrate the idea that some monuments derive symbolic power from their yonic shape, it turns out to have been uncannily prophetic. That Freudian slip foreshadowed this week’s installment of Freudian Fridays, which [...]