History Main / FreudWasRight

** ''Discworld/GoingPostal'': Invoked by Adora Belle as she looks over Moist's ideas for stamp pictures; she notes that the stamp with the highest value has a picture of the Tower of Art at Unseen University -- the tallest building in the city.

** ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'': "Magrat says a broomstick is one of them sexual metaphor things." (Footnote: Although this is a phallusy.)

%%* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': [[invoked]] Roy feels [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0308.html diminished]] without his sword.

-->'''Megatron''': Enough's enough. Two hours listening to you tell my why I used to wear a giant weapon on my arm. I hate to disappoint you, Rung, but sometimes a fusion cannon is just a fusion cannon.

* ''FanFic/TheLifeAndTimesOfTheFantasmicFour'': {{Invoked}} in-universe. On prom night (in a CallBack to "Goes Cellular") Wanda decides that the post break-up tension between Phoebe and Arnold was caused by them not having "break-up sex", failing to grasp the subtleties of two people splitting up for no real reason when they're still in love with each other. Turns out [[JerkassHasAPoint she has a point...]]

** ''Discworld/GoingPostal'': Invoked by Adora Belle as she looks over Moist's ideas for stamp pictures; she notes that the stamp with the highest value has a picture of the Tower of Art at Unseen University -- tallest building in the city.

* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'': Invoked. Julia theorizes that the Party keeps people in a state of warlike hysteria and power hunger though subjecting them to sexual deprivation. She even calls it "sex gone sour."

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': [[invoked]] Inverted in "Phantasms", when Data recreates Dr. Freud in the holodeck with the hope of interpreting the disturbing images generated by his dream program. Freud, of course, proceeds to assume it's all about Data's issues with his mother and his sexuality, neither of which he has, because he's an android.[[note]]Hilariously, a later episode revealed that Data actually did have a mother figure in Dr. Soong's wife, but this does not make his objection to Freud's go-to ramblings any less true. He's also been sexually active, though with women only.[[/note]]

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Scorn}}'': {{Invoked|Trope}}; the game is deliberately designed to resemble H. R. Giger's works, which involved a lot of freudian imagery.

---> '''Martyn:''' What was it you told me to do? Earlier on, you told me to "fiddle with my pink slot" or something,when I was trying to plug the microphone into the computer...

See also CompensatingForSomething, EroticEating, LecherousLicking, LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt, PervertedSniffing, and PhallicWeapon. Also compare EveryoneIsSatanInHell.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones''. In "The Dragon and the Wolf", Bronn and Jaime don't see the point of the Unsullied army, made up of former slaves who have been castrated. If you're not fighting to impress women, get the money to buy women, or protect your family which requires having sex with women, then why fight? They conclude that war is all about cocks after all.

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-->'''Miss Reed:''' (''after 6-year-old Alvy kisses a girl on the cheek'') You should be ashamed of yourself!
-->'''Adult Alvy:''' Why? I was just expressing a healthy sexual curiosity.
-->'''Miss Reed:''' Six-year-old boys don't have girls on their mind.
-->'''Adult Alvy:''' I did!
-->'''Girl Classmate:''' (''whom young Alvy kissed'') For God's sake, Alvy, even Freud speaks of a latency period!
-->'''Adult Alvy:''' Well, I never had a latency period! I can't help it.

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* Humanity's obsession with sex is implicitly discussed in Gary Gulman's bit about how the birth control pill is referred to as "the pill".
-->There are a lot of pills out there, but that's ''the'' pill. There's a pill that keeps you from getting ''polio''. That's not the pill.
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-->TG: i just want your professional take on how many things in my dream symbolize dicks
-->TT: We've already established that all of your dreams are packed with enough homoerotic symbolism to lift Freudian theory from the ashes of discreditation.

[[caption-width-right:342:"Our architect doesn't dick around."]]

[[quoteright:320:[[AwesomeButImpractical http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/freud_was_right.jpg]]]]
[-[[caption-width-right:320:Don't you wish ''your'' [[UnusualEuphemism schalldämpfer]] was this {{big|gerIsBetter}}?]]-]

%%* ''ComicBook/BlackHole'': [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. There's an abundance of sexual imagery, mostly in the form of vaginas. You could almost make a drinking game out of how many show up.

[[caption-width-right:320:Don't you wish ''your'' [[UnusualEuphemism schalldämpfer]] was this {{big|gerIsBetter}}?]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Don't you wish ''your'' [[UnusualEuphemism schalldämpfer]] was this {{big|gerIsBetter}}?]]

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': [[invoked]] Inverted in "Phantasms", when Data recreates Dr. Freud in the holodeck with the hope of interpreting the disturbing images generated by his dream program. Freud, of course, proceeds to assume it's all about Data's issues with his mother and his sexuality, neither of which he has, because he's an android.

* The aptly named ''Freudian Nightmare'' from [[http://imgur.com/P8AyX25 this image]]; a 260 kilometer long [[Franchise/StarWars Star Destroyer]] (100km larger than the [[ThatsNoMoon Death Star]]!) who's [[DidntThinkThisThrough huge list of flaws]] show that it exists for reasons [[AwesomeButImpractical other then actually combat usefulness]].

See also CompensatingForSomething, EroticEating, LecherousLicking, LooksLikeSheIsEnjoyingIt, PervertedSniffing, and PhallicWeapon.

When any kind of long thin shape is a symbolic penis, or any hole that is oval is a symbolic vagina, you've got Freud Was Right in play. Obsession with sex is one of the core aspects of this trope, and is frequently {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.

Some say Freud was right about [[EveryoneIsBi something else]], too. Not to be confused with AllPsychologyIsFreudian and EverybodyHasLotsOfSex. Frequently leads to DoubleEntendre and AccidentalInnuendo.

%%* ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'': FreudWasRight is practically a ''religious tenet''.

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The TropeNamer is Dr. SigmundFreud, a Viennese doctor who proposed a theory of human behavior and development based on the idea that all our behaviours are ultimately expressions of instinctual, biological desires. Like, for instance, sex.

Sometimes also known as "Paging Dr. Freud..."

When any kind of long thin shape is assumed to be a penis, or any hole that is oval is a vagina, you've got Freud Was Right in play. Obsession with sex is one of the core aspects of this trope, and is frequently {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.