Seeing a Psychiatrist:
Fear of Authority, and Freud
Went to another psychiatrist to try to get my problems out in the open.
“I get these images in my head now, since the accident, that I’m suddenly in a situation where someone is putting a gun to the side of my head. I don’t know why, and I don’t know how to get out of it.”
A gun.
Yes.
What kind of gun?
Pardon me?
What type of gun do you see? a rifle? a shot gun? If it’s a hand-gun, is it magazine-loaded or is it a revolver? Or is it small, like a .38 special, or is it bigger, like a .44 magnum, like Dirty Harry used?
And I thought, this man knows a lot about guns.
“Well, I don’t see much of the gun, but I guess it’s some sort of hand-gun. Why?”
Well, this represents your fear of authority after the accident, because the gun in your visions symbolizes a penis.
Hmmm.
I saw the Freud books on the back book shelf, and at the end of the session I said thank you, this has been very helpful, and I never went back again. If I have enough problems with relationships between the sexes, I don’t need some guy telling me that everything I think of relates to men’s genitals.
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