PreTeena by Allison Barrows for October 27, 2011

Those girls need, not Spell-Chek, but Spell-Intentions.

of course, blame the crack addict…

Cool. Everybody’s learning something…

Please, not this early in the morning!

Crack addict? Jeri’s teeth look ok.

I think froiid means cold, though the association with blood (sang) is probably pretty Freudian anyway. I once read a hilarious book called “Freud for the Jung”.

Could you run that by me again?

apGwilym is right. “Froid” is “cold” en Français — both as in temperature or even figuratively as in coldness of a relationship — but it is definitely not a homophone for Freud, unless you count when it is mispronounced by sounding it out with an American accent. (“Froid” sounds close to “fwah.”) Teena is making a joke at Jeri’s flub (Reverse psychiatry? Is that giving someone the opposite medical treatment they need for a psychiatric condition?) — the concept of reverse psychology is not Freudian.

I hope you find this relevant and amusing: http://bit.ly/t9CdK8 ;)

To build on what @Timeweaver said, reverse psychology works when your subject doesn’t catch on that you’re trying to do it. The idea is that people have a negative emotional reaction to being told what to do or how to do it, so if you try to, they will do the opposite. (Anyone ever have or remember being a teenager?) This doesn’t always work, and sometimes is confused with trying to guilt-trip the subject, which is just attempting to give the subject a negative reaction to the suggestion you want them to avoid directly.

@pharmakers ubik It’s not too well known, but Freud was addicted to Cocain…sure, not exactly the same as crack, but close enough :p