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Don’t worry, all of these phobias can be overcome by routine everyday exposure (clownophobes should attend the circus daily, etc), except for Panphobia, which has no known cure, and probably never will, either.
Go To List: http://www.dailycognition.com/index.php/2009/02/15/top-10-bizarre-phobias.html

In preparation for this week’s edition of our psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, we’ve been reading up on this fascinating new research whereby doctors and scientists have been able to track the brain chemistry of coupling mammals. After all, what could be more Freudian than libido-liberating animal sex? More interestingly though, the research could eventually lead to [...]

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 [...]

Now that the madness of Christmas is over – don’t get us started on what Freud would have thought of candy canes, big red boxes, tube socks full of “gifts” and celebrating a young man’s sacrifice in the name of his father – we can get back to our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays. This week, [...]

It’s another issue of our weekly psychoanalysticle, Freudian Fridays, wherein we take a close look at the Interweb’s unconscious desires and telling trends. This week we look at a list by Dayna Davis on Divine Caroline, entitled 8 Dream Symbols That Point to Stress.
Of course, any good Freudian knows this list’s alternate (and more truthful) [...]

The saucy supernerds at io9.com took the recent releases of Hancock and The Incredible Hulk as an opportunity to explore the quiet plight of sexually dysfunctional superheroes. Some of their findings:

The Hulk (turns green)

Superman and Hancock (ballistic sperm)

Spider-Man (radioactive sperm)

Rogue of the X-Men (absorbs life, not in a sexy way)

Ben Grimm of The Fantastic [...]