A Taste of Bacon Sir? - The Secret of Shakespeare

[Magda Hassan]

For me it is less his obsession with sex, most men are quite obsessed with it to greater or lesser degrees, mostly greater, but his total lack of insight into women, women's lives, women's experiences. He has no idea and it shows. So while he has certainly contributed to our understanding of the human condition ultimately one half of that humanity is missing from his worldview. I wont even bother to mention the class bias. So it is not much of a world worth knowing imho and makes me wary of much of the rest of it he lives in. Here there be dragons. Both Freud and Jung explored symbolism extensively. Jung more so in my observation. More deeply. Both synthesised the use of symbols into their respective theories and warned about ignoring them at one's peril.

I've always loved Freud's quote 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar'. Well, thank fuck for that. Not completely hopeless after all. Pity he couldn't also see that the numerous reports of incest and sexual abuse was not some poor victim's fantasy wish. We still live with the huge amount of damage done by his collusion with abusers to maintain patriarchal rights at the expense of truth. Better that his pernicious mumbo jumbo bull shit theories make generations of victims be blamed for their abuse than Freud's delicate ego and dubious 'authority' be put at risk.