Psychosis

Dear Blog,

It's funny the way people can erase things from their head. In psychology we call that "psychosis". It was present in my film class when we watched a clip from "Spellbound". Basically, Ingrid Bergman plays this therapist working with a man who many suspect to be a serial killer. Turns out, he's not, he was just blocking something traumatic about the way his little brother died. He knew his brother died, but he didn't know how or the circumstances involving the death. It's all very sad and tragic, really, but what's worse is when people try to induce psychosis. You can't induce psychosis. You can try to erase and erase and erase but those little smudges will still be on the blackboard, letting you know the phrase "trickle-down economics" was once written in chalk. You can never get those smudges clean, really. I never had a problem with the smudges - metaphoric or literal - but I think if I did it would be useless to do anything about it consciously. The whole point of psychosis is that it's done unconsciously- trying to erase something will only push it farther and farther into your mind, where there's no evasion. It's like shoving an annoying kid into the foyer of your house filled with cookies and N-64 in hopes of getting him to leave.

It's cute, though, when people think they have more power than they do. Stupid fools.

P. I. Staker