Marmalade Psychoanalysis

RACHAEL AND MELVYN

On Marmalade Psychoanalysis

R. Uncle Melvyn! My ID got out the other day and I behaved really badly!

M. Why didn’t your SUPER-EGO stop you?

R. Because my EGO wouldn’t let it!

M. Let me guess. You’ve been doing Sigmund Freud at school?

R. Yes, and it means that nothing is our fault any more. Isn’t that great?

M. Sin is abolished at a stroke. Free Will is no more. Marvellous - you can do no wrong. No need for forgiveness or any of that old tommy rot.

R. OK, I do have an Oedipus complex; (or is it an Electra complex?). Anyway I want to kill my mother and make love to my father. Oh yes, and I have a Death Wish too, I think…

M. I must say it all sounds very relaxed and jolly. Do you think it has the ring of truth?

R. Well, it all seems to fit together and make sense.

M. I prefer Carl Gustav Jung myself. He writes better stories.

R. Stories? So they are all made up?

M. Just because they are made up doesn’t mean they aren’t true.

R. Give me a marmalade toastie, someone. I’m confused.