Ok my favorite professor just one-upped himself in the world of greatest (or stupidest) quotes. Were discussing Freud and how adults repress themselves so the following happened (this is the professor teaching ETS451 Gothic Theory)
CHThorne: So how many of you think that you are not repressed?
A lot of the class raises their hands (I didn’t raise mine)
CHThorne: Ok so we are now going to conduct an experiment. I want you all to answer me the following question starting with you (pointing to someone on the other side of the room). Who in this room would you like to FUCK (heavy emphasis on the word fuck, he said it really loudly). I’m serious answer the question.
The kid is turning bright red
CHThorne: I thought so. This is the perfect illustration of what Freud was talking about. Those of you who didn’t answer and that’s everyone, you are repressed otherwise you would have just blurted out the name of the person you want to fuck without thinking about the consequences.
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For reference his previous most inappropriate highlight (this has been discussed with students who have taken other courses with him) was when he was teaching a course on Milton and was going over a piece of literature titled “The Monk.” The class wasn’t getting the imagery of the broken masts during a battle between England and Spain when CHThorne said something along the following lines
“Oh come on people. You can’t tell me that not a single one of you gets the imagery here? Think for a second…Don’t make me take off my pants to help you understand what the author is talking about.”
Yeah....somtimes I'm the most unrepressed person out there. Then I have to deal with it later. Sounds like a class I would enjoy far too much.
Posted by: Dom at March 25, 2004 01:14 PM