Dinosaur Comics and Psychoanalysis

As blogging goes, it's pretty lazy and uninteresting to continually post comics from other sites. I mean, this must be the 5th or 6th dinosaur comic that I've posted. I could just give you enough credit to go check that site periodically on your own if you found any of the earlier ones interesting, but no.

Sometimes these comics just have something in them that grabs me. Take for example today's Dinosaur comics.



There's this element of self-reference. (Talking about analyzing thoughts, leading to the analysis of that thought, looping back on the original exposition) Then there's this element of implicit assumptions about the way people's inner lives work. For example, that your thoughts and actions necessarily have some wider meaning either to others, or as an interpretation of an un-expressed unconscious phenomenon. The last element is the puerile joke (ha-ha, only serious) which answers the question. Some thoughts don't have broader meaning to others. They may not even be expressions of anything subconscious. They might just be for one-off silliness and humor.

Some day, I'll write a rant about the unconscious mind and how the way that we approach it changes the way we think about ourselves, just as T-rex wonders what it says about him that he wants others to find wider meaning in his actions. That's a whole different kettle of fish though, and would compel me to write about cigar-smoking Austrians in a way that's not conducive to including web comics and "boner ahoy" references.

Ce la vie.