I think fan fiction has existed for many centuries in different contexts - like in lots of Romantic poetry a lot of the work to understand what the poet is trying to say is in learning the myths they’re referencing and how they were relevant to people when the poem was written. Or even the Oedipal complex. That’s kind of fan fiction. Freud used Greek tragedy as a reference point for diagnostic terms probably because most people in his circles would be familiar enough with Greek tragedy to get the gist from just the combination of those two words. If Freud were alive today and doing that work maybe it would be the Jacob complex, you know?
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I think fan fiction has existed for many centuries in different contexts - like in lots of Romantic poetry a lot of the work to understand what the poet is trying to say is in learning the myths they’re referencing and how they were relevant to people when the poem was written. Or even the Oedipal complex. That’s kind of fan fiction. Freud used Greek tragedy as a reference point for diagnostic terms probably because most people in his circles would be familiar enough with Greek tragedy to get the gist from just the combination of those two words. If Freud were alive today and doing that work maybe it would be the Jacob complex, you know?
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