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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 32, No. 16. July 16, 1969

Freud Will

Freud Will

For some time me now I have entertained a desire to lodge a vehement protest against the prevading cult of amateur psychoanalytics in which the majority of students at tertiary level seem to find it necessary to indulge.

As a result of subjection to continual attacks on my supposed "social immaturity" and "basic emotional instability" I am discovering an aspect of my personality which I had heretofore never suspected existed—probably because it never did exist until brought into being by the assaults of maniacal frendian enthusiasts.

Observing a first-year student in an attempt to expound his or her analysis of a particular character has a direct parallel in watching a small boy trying to throw a heavy brick across Lambton Quay on a Friday night—he is inadequately endowed in carry out the task successfully and so makes a general mess of the whole affair, with the instrument used posing a potential danger to all around him.

The practice is intolerably abusive in freedom of individual develpment, and I therefore exhort all university students who consider themselves intelligent to Refrain From Displaying Their Childish Egoistic Desires To Outdo Freud At His Own Game.

Anna May.