The founder of psychoanalytic theory was Sigmund Freud. Freud said that there are two parts of the brain, the conscious and unconscious. The conscious is everything that we are aware of. This is the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about rationally. The unconscious is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness. In this blog I was being talking about the show called the Real Housewives of New Jersey, specify housewives Theresa and Danielle. They both go against suppressing their unconscious by not reserving their real feelings by lashing out at each other.
The New Jersey Housewives is a drama filled show. There is a new fight every single week. The clip above is one of the most infamous fights that led to the popular saying “Prostitution Whore”. after every fight I have noticed that when the women talk about what happened during that episode they all give different versions of the story. This reminded me of Freud’s Unconscious and Conscious. After this fight happened, Theresa explained that what set her off was three harmless words, “pay attention please” that was said by Danielle. Freud stated that “the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about rationally is our conscious” obviously Theresa was not thinking rationally when Danielle made that silly comment to her. She turned that sentence into something major and said that Danielle was insulting her. She didn’t flip a table when Danielle was cussing at her, only when she told her to pay attention. Danielle’s “slip of the tongue” (15) led to Theresa’s outburst that caused the men at the dinner to hold her back. When Danielle told Theresa to pay attention Theresa said in an interview that “that was totally uncalled for. Who is she God?” in her “fantasy” (15) of what happened Theresa said that was one of the most disrespectful things someone could say. Theresa went against Freud’s, “human reason and put up a precarious defense mechanism struggling against” and was “motivated by the unconscious desires and forces” (807) to flip the table over and try to attack Danielle. This was a fight that happened last season and was continued with a brand new one a few weeks ago.
Again Theresa and Danielle got into it because Danielle didn’t like that Theresa called her “honey”. Theresa’s unconscious side than came blurting out by saying, “I don’t want to call you honey, is bitch better.” that is when things really escalated and Danielle goes running to her Bentley to try to escape Theresa’s crazy rant. In Freud’s, The Interpretation of Dream, he says that “desires and wishes are suppressed through the unconscious.” In this case Theresa’s desires were not suppressed and she went against her conscious by telling Danielle how she really feels about her.
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