Just In Time

So, walking around yesterday and today I am realizing that the recent warm weather is finally reminding me what color the ground used to be. That's right, the snow if finally melting to the point where the grass is visible once more. And then I read the 5 day forecast and realized there is another snow storm (or two) on the horizon.

Maybe it is the adult in me, maybe its the amount we have gotten this year, but I think I am done with the snow for one year. I don't even think a snow day could convince me otherwise.

Been doing some reading for a test I have tomorrow. Did you know that Sigmund Freud had some pretty strange ideas about mankind? I mean I will give the guy credit for laying some ground work for the field I an majoring in, sure, but there are some ideas of his that just make me laugh because of how absurd they are. For my class we have to know Freud's theory for the origin of religion which includes the first parricide, the beginning of incest taboo, the urinating on a father by his sons, all of which lead to the first civilization and origin of religion. It is definitely a good story.

What I did find interesting was Freud's concept of understanding man in terms of the history of man. Freud theorized that any individual organism in its species was genetically linked to its ancestors and thus that species in the present carried with it, the history of its species. Freud believed that the modern day man contained in him the history of mankind and we could learn history of our ancestors and the history of mankind by extracting this from the modern man via examination by psychoanalysis. Curious.