Psychoanalysis

In which Rat finds a use for it

CWCID: inspired by James mentioning Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen:

Uncle Sigmund developed his ideas mostly observing a specific subset of the population (namely, urban leisure class), and outside of it they do not apply well.

Politicians however might have a thing or two in common with Freud’s patients. They’re always struggling for attention (politics being the ultimate form of «attention economy»); and they function in the symbolic sphere, detached from the real world.

Perhaps, to avoid becoming a suitable object for psychoanalysis, one needs to do the proverbial «going outside to touch the grass» more often… or at least to clean up after the cat.