What do you think? You think she is beautiful? Well, I think that if she was not beautiful, you would not have even stopped to look.  I look upon reviews as a kind of children’s disease which more or less attacks new-born books. There are cases on record where the healthiest succumbed to them, and the puniest have often survived them. Many never get this disease. Attempts have frequently been made to present the disease by means of amulets of prefaces and dedications, or by coloring them up with pronunciamientos; but it does not always help. Every person has also one’s moral backside which one does not show except under the stress of necessity and which one covers as long as possible with the pants of good breeding. The moral backside is the striking attribute which exists here as a result of a comparison. However, this is followed by a continuation of the comparison with a regular play on words (“necessity”) and a second, still more unusual combination (“the pants of good breeding”), which is possibly witty in itself; for the pants become witty, as it were, because they are the pants of good breeding.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 7

We may, therefore, be surprised if the whole thing gives us the impression of a very witty comparison and we are beginning to notice that we are generally inclined in our estimation to extend a quality to the whole thing when it clings only to one part of it. Besides, the “pants of good breeding” reminds us of a similar confusing verse: “Until, at least, the buttons tore from the pants of my patience.” It is obvious that both of the last comparison possess a character which one cannot find in all good, i.e., fitting comparisons. One might say that they are in a large manner “debasing,” for they place a thing of high category, an abstraction (good breeding, patience), side by side with a thing of a very concrete nature of a very low kind (pants). Whether this peculiarity has something to do with wit we shall have to consider in another connection. I am unable to decide whether the lowing to the level of the child is only a special case of comic degradation, or whether everything comical fundamentally depends on the degradation to the level of the child. The linguistic customs of these tribes, as well as of most totem races, reveal a peculiarity which undoubtly is pertinent in this connection.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 7

The beginnings of religion, ethics, society, and art meet in the Edipus complex. This is in entire accord with the findings of psychoanalysis, namely, that the nucleus of all neuroses as far as our present knowledge of them goes in the Edipus complex. It comes as a great surprise to me that these problems of radical psychology can also be solved through a single concrete instance, such as the relation to the son sacrificing himself to atone for the murder of his father, which he was not responsible for. Perhaps another psychological problem must be included here. We have so frequently had occasion to show the ambivalence of emotions in its real sense, that is to say the coincidence of love and hate towards the same object, at the root of important cultural formations. We know nothing about the origin of this ambivalence. It may be assumed to be a fundamental phenomenon of our emotional life. However, the other possibility seems to me also worthy of consideration : that ambivalence, originally foreign to our emotional life, was acquired by mankind from the father complex, where psychoanalytic investigation of the individual today still reveals the strongest expression of it. #RyanPhillippe 3 of 7

I am used to being misunderstood and therefore do not think it superfluous to state clearly that in giving these deductions I am by no means oblivious of the complex nature of the phenomena which give rise to them; the only claim made is that a new factor has been added to the already known or still unrecognized origins of religion, morality, and society, which was furnished through psychoanalytic experience. The synthesis of the whole explanation must be left to another. However, it is in the nature of this new contribution that it could play none other than the central role in such a synthesis, although it will be necessary to overcome great affective resistances before such importance will be conceded to it. We must take into account that the remarkable convergence reached in these illustrations, pointing to a single inclusive relation, ought not to blind us to the uncertainties of our assumptions and to the difficulties of our conclusions. Of these difficulties, I will point out only two which must have forced themselves upon many readers. #RyanPhillippe 4 of 7

Many women feel like they are oppressed and do not play a significate part in American culture, history, or religion. However, I was very impressed by the film The Neon Demon. It really challenged all the incorrect thoughts and basically made it clear that there can also be a woman savior, a female various of Christ. An aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles to model after her parents died, she is a teenager, not of legal age and the agency falls in love with her an encourages her to lie about her age because they know she will be a very perfect model. When the people in Los Angeles see her, they know that there is something special about Jesse (Elle Fanning), they see the perfection of God in her. Although all the other women are beautiful, too, they feel Christ emanating from the core of Jesse’s being. Although she is fresh, and a virgin, she stays in a sleazy motel, and works. You can tell that something bad is going to happen to her because of her environment. #RyanPhillippe 5 of 7

I do not want to ruin the film The Neon Demon for you, but it certainly has elements of the sacrament, resurrection, and even Judas. The purpose of the movie is to explain to women that they are significant and divine and do not need a man to get by. However, it is also to warn people to pay attention to their surroundings and just because you are pretty or Christ-like, does not mean that you are going to be safe in the plastic World, which is why many parents keep their children out of the media, and do not want them to be famous. The film is very artistic, thought provoking, and very beautiful. I recommend watching it with people who like books and art and at the end having discussion about themes you noticed in the film. It can hardly have escaped any one that we base everything upon the assumption of a psyche of the mass in which psychic processes occur as in the psychic life of the individual. Moreover, we let the sense of guilt for a deed survive for thousands of years, remaining effective in generations which could not have known anything of this deed.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 7

We allow an emotional process such as might have arisen among generations of sons and daughters that had been ill-treated by their fathers, to continue to new generations which had escaped such treatment by the very removal of the father. These seem indeed to be weighty objections and any other explanation which can avoid such assumptions would seem to merit preference. However, further consideration shows that we ourselves do not have to carry the whole responsibility for such daring. Without the assumption of a mass psyche, or a continuity in the emotional life of humankind which permits us to disregard the interruptions of psychic acts through the transgression of individuals, social psychology could not exist at all. If psychic processes of one generation did not continue in the next, if each had to acquire its attitude toward life afresh, there would be no progress in this field and almost no development. Religion being the best of things, its corruptions are likely to be the worst. You are a dangerous girl. True beauty is the highest currency we have. Without it, she would be nothing. #RyanPhillippe 7 of 7