Psychology Notes I: Freudian Excuse

Lets use an example, shall we? We all know Toki, don't we? Well, I do being that I have applied my observations and the Freudian Excuse to my own writing. Now, from what we do know, Toki never had it fortunate and wasn't always the person that she was, rather she used to be very kind, but, nevertheless, here is her Freudian Excuse for why she is as she is. For one she is mentally ill, something that is characteristic with the long-term psychological effects of child abuse (technically, she wasn't a child if you consider how old she might actually be but, still). However, the reason to why she has lost her sanity is not exactly why it is but the abuse and mistreatment she's suffered was a contributing factor but, nevertheless, the abuse did indeed leave her a ticking time bomb. Now, a quick rundown of a her mental illnesses, be noted she has multiple of them

• Multiple types of schizophrenia
• Mania (symptoms being extreme/abnormal irritability, unusual hostility)
• Borderline personality disorder (some of the behavior she has is noted as symptoms of this disorder one of which is a real or perceived fear of being abandoned, along with engaging in some reckless behaviour)
  
• Dissociative identity disorder (sort of)
• Any many others that have yet to be diagnosed

Second, she wanted to turn the tables onto the world. She wanted to be the one to hurt, control, misuse, manipulate, and betray just as it had been done to her and to act out any sort of revenge towards the one that hurt her. Seeing the circumstances, she couldn't really do that, she took to hitting and beating up everyone half of the time because, in her mind, being so warped up, it felt right. In doing so, she often beat up her friends, who, despite her mental illness, still love and are loyal to her. Not only did she mistreat them, she also did Frailine the same way, mirroring what had been done to her and the error of her ways came when Frailine was imprisoned for being criminally insane after trying to take revenge (which drove her to rise an army of the undead) and, after a a suicide attempt, diagnosed schizotypal or, in old terms, "borderline schizophrenic". Overall her Freudian Excuse was so she could never be hurt again and, to keep that from happening, she wanted to hurt others, coupled with the fact she is mentally ill, explaining  but not justifying her actions, although, without her medication, she cannot really think rationally and is often not at all coherent  and or mostly catatonic or, to the worst, dangerously psychotic. 

See? Those were just fictional examples but, overall, the principle can still be applied and, unlike half of some of the real life examples, neither of these two were far away from redemption, rather they were but a bit too late, as they had both drifted into insanity by the time.  However, most real life examples don't come close to that, rather they are a bit worse and, often a Freudian excuse is used to justify, in times where they really they cannot be used. 

From what I have seen and heard, especially in the cases where people hurt others, one example being bullies. This is one of the big ones so far but, nevertheless, it doesn't justify their actions, rather, it explains their behavior. Some bullies have had it tough, one of which being abused, so naturally they really know no other way and is taking out their frustration, anger, and hatred on those in which they perceive as weaker, mirroring what may be going on at home. On the other hand, they may have lack of discipline, thus they feel they can get away with it.  A second example, would be abusive parents, a small percent of whom were abused by their parents, so they really don't know any other way and, on the other hand, either because they've had or is having a hard or out of resentment, or, rather some combination of both, they abuse their children because of the aforementioned. Their circumstances only explain but not justify their actions

Nevertheless the point is, that Freudian excuses only explain and are very seldom justifying the actions.