Frank wrote on Feb 7^th, 2022 at 9:39pm:

Yes, of course, the eloquent can't lie.

The Formative Influence of Shakespeare on Freud and the Development of Psychoanalysis- A sold out event recorded at the Anna Freud Centre Library on 16 January 2013.

Behind Sigmund Freud’s desk chair in the Freud Museum London sits the central section of his library, his volumes of Shakespeare and Goethe. Shakespeare’s plays occupied a significant place on Sigmund Freud’s bookshelf for most of his life. He began reading Shakespeare when he was eight years old and quoted from the plays in letters to his friends, his colleagues and his beloved. He used lines from the plays to help him grasp difficult issues in his life such as failure and death. Most significantly, Shakespeare’s plays are part of the raw material from which Freud constructed psychoanalysis. Themes, images, plots, and lines from the plays are woven throughout the foundational texts of psychoanalysis in a way that suggests their formative influence. Freud’s intertextual relationship with Shakespeare took many forms including quotation, allusion and literary interpretation. Some of the allusions are deeply embedded in Freud’s texts in a manner that even Freud may not have been aware of.  This talk will explore the influence of Shakespeare on Freud and on the development of psychoanalysis. Christian Smith has recently completed his doctoral studies at the University of Warwick in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies. His thesis explores the formative influence of Shakespeare on Marxism, psychoanalysis and Frankfurt School Critical Theory.

https://www.freud.org.uk/2013/01/16/shakespeare-and-psychoanalysis/#:~:text=Shak...

If there was a black genetic infusion that long ago in the UK, why do Englishmen still have tiny white dicks?

Jane Austen too wacist for Sterling Polytechnic in Scotland:



In response to the Marxist Black Lives Matter movement, celebrated English novelist Jane Austen has been replaced in a literature course by African American writer Toni Morrison in order to further the “decolonisation of the curriculum”.

An English module at Scotland’s Stirling University has decided to ditch Pride and Prejudice author Jane Austen in favour of left-wing poet and novelist Toni Morrison, whose works are focussed around racism against black people in the United States and who blamed Donald Trump’s presidential victory on white supremacy.

According to internal documents seen by The Telegraph, Stirling University scrapped the Sense and Sensibility writer in the lit programme in favour of Morrison in order to ensure the “decolonisation of the curriculum” and to “contribute to increased diversity”.

The nature of the course will reportedly change as well, with students taking the Special Authors module being told that “the main topics covered will include racial difference and critical race theory, gender and sexuality.”

The students will also be educated on “black postmodernism, Gothic, as well as the aesthetics of the contemporary US and African-American novel”.






How to switch young people off from reading - give them crap to read.

John Smith wrote on Dec 28^th, 2021 at 11:31am:


It means dark haired man. 

Duin do bheal agus falbh a ghabhail do ghnuis airson cac.

Laugh till you cry wrote on Feb 9^th, 2022 at 2:54pm:


That's because men with big dicks only rule a flock of goats and cows in Africa.
While small dicks rule nations of people like Emperor Hirohito did.

John Smith wrote on Aug 17^th, 2022 at 4:25pm:


Lol. It’s Gaelic, pronounced like garlic without the r.
Actually my first language, but I stopped using it when I went to school. Scots is a different language, closer to English.

Mac dubh is translated to macDuff.  It means son of Dubh (doo). I won’t translate what I said though.

All the woke, pwogwessive ijits are corporate stooges.



According to recent research by the Pull Agency, a brand consultancy, promotion that strains to impress consumers with a company’s progressive imprimatur is off-putting. You always suspected it, but now it’s official: woke advertising backfires.

In a survey of 2,000 representative Britons, 68 per cent of respondents were either ‘uneasy’ or ‘unsure’ about brands supporting fashionable left-wing causes such as climate change, BLM, LGBTQ+, diversity, equality, and female body confidence. Fifteen per cent would actively avoid purchasing the products of companies that publicly endorse those causes via ‘woke-washing’. To go out on a limb here, I’d venture that even the 32 per cent of respondents who claimed to want brands to posture politically in their promotions would rather watch Cravendale Milk’s hilarious 2011 advert ‘Cats with Thumbs’ than the trendily humourless Nike advert ten years later, in which a black lesbian student spurns the classics as representing ‘the patriarchy’ to celebrate ‘women of colour’ who ‘fight for social justice’.

When asked what companies should do to be socially responsible, 58 per cent of respondents ticked: ‘Pay their taxes, treat people fairly, respect the environment and not use it as a PR opportunity.’ In other words, rather than lecture us to behave well, behave well yourself; peddle your product, not your unconvincing high-mindedness. Only 15 per cent wanted companies to take a public stand on progressive causes.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/does-advertising-matter