My First Psychiatric Appointment!

[packbat]

The University of Maryland College Park campus Health Center offers to each student a certain number of free mental health counseling sessions. On the advisement of my professor, to whom I still owe a big paper, I availed myself of that opportunity.

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Well, ADD does explain a few things, I must admit.


In other news, I finished reading Bram Stoker's "Dracula" for the first time, and it was quite a page-turner. More interesting to me, however, were the novel's weaknesses, the most vivid of which was the strangely inconsistent misogynism. The behavior and treatment of Mina Murray is what I have in mind: most of the time, and in the opinion of all the characters, she is brilliantly clever and uncommonly brave, but then she will be reduced to a weirdly sexualized pawn. Come to think of it, all the sexuality in the novel is very strange, and all of it regarding the females. I think Mr. Stoker had some very interesting issues.

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[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Dracula is vague like that. It's difficult to firmly interpret in one light or another, which is part of what makes it such a great book. It both loves and fears scientific thought. It loves and fears imperialism and imperial attitudes. It has strong women who are also weak and yet strong, but at the same time the men are oftentimes utter idiots.

About the only concrete thing I could say about the characterization of Dracula is that the American is almost pathetic.

Also, I friended you. It seemed the thing to do.

Re: Hi

[packbat.livejournal.com]

About the only concrete thing I could say about the characterization of Dracula is that the American is almost pathetic.

Huh. I didn't even notice that. All the other characters were so strange that Quincey Morris just sorta faded.

Oh, and I friended you back. Hi!