Also, I should let you know that I think Freud's research was seriously flawed and that he was, basically, projecting his own issues onto the whole of humanity.
The point isn't whether Freud was right about the Electra complex in real life. The point is that Rose has one. She's written that way. There are huge, explicit issues surrounding abandonment by her father and the insecurity that resulted, along with a sexualization of the surrogate father figure. I think Freud was full of shit, too, but his theories have made for some interesting drama over the years.
Wow. That's... incredibly insulting. When you wrote that, were you aware of how insulting it was? I've been watching television for, oh, quite a while now. I've read a lot of meta and, also, actual literary criticism of various novels and plays. I'm not, as you seem to believe, someone who stumbled onto Doctor Who and said, "Ooo! The pictures move! Shiny!"
I would have though someone who would post something entitled, "Doctor Who: Did We Need Martha?" might have been prepared for spirited debate -- which is all I've done.
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The point isn't whether Freud was right about the Electra complex in real life. The point is that Rose has one. She's written that way. There are huge, explicit issues surrounding abandonment by her father and the insecurity that resulted, along with a sexualization of the surrogate father figure. I think Freud was full of shit, too, but his theories have made for some interesting drama over the years.
Wow. That's... incredibly insulting. When you wrote that, were you aware of how insulting it was? I've been watching television for, oh, quite a while now. I've read a lot of meta and, also, actual literary criticism of various novels and plays. I'm not, as you seem to believe, someone who stumbled onto Doctor Who and said, "Ooo! The pictures move! Shiny!"
I would have though someone who would post something entitled, "Doctor Who: Did We Need Martha?" might have been prepared for spirited debate -- which is all I've done.