Cognitive dissonance, not bi-polarity – Jin does not have a brain chemistry to be imbalanced. Her problem is cumulative cognitive dissonance and how it messes up the ego & super-ego; it’s an entirely intellectual form of unpredictability 🙂 She melts down because of thinking too hard about what she knows, rather than because of a screwed up hormonal balance which flips her into pure emotion.
Brandi & Bud, on the other hand, are the reverse – their issue is that they got tortured into balls of pure emotional id, and they had to learn how to super-ego from scratch. [1]
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[1] With apologies to Doctor Freud and his epic wrongness, but it remains an excellent metaphor to describe the levels on which people perceive their own consciousness.
Jin is insecure, yes. She has also been through this before in previous “lives.” Maybe she remembers that he will leave her anyway regardless of how things turn out. Maybe she remembers driving Alan away with her emotional exhibitions … or killing him during one …
Well, good luck with that Alan.
Looks like he made the fatal mistake of actually ANSWERING one of her “clay doll” questions.
Dd Monica doing Bad Things to her demon upset Jin … or is she just going bipolar again?
i think Jin’s bipolar again. She was heading that way the last time we were with her…….
Cognitive dissonance, not bi-polarity – Jin does not have a brain chemistry to be imbalanced. Her problem is cumulative cognitive dissonance and how it messes up the ego & super-ego; it’s an entirely intellectual form of unpredictability 🙂 She melts down because of thinking too hard about what she knows, rather than because of a screwed up hormonal balance which flips her into pure emotion.
Brandi & Bud, on the other hand, are the reverse – their issue is that they got tortured into balls of pure emotional id, and they had to learn how to super-ego from scratch. [1]
Like, 56 times & counting.
[1] With apologies to Doctor Freud and his epic wrongness, but it remains an excellent metaphor to describe the levels on which people perceive their own consciousness.
Some people are wrong – but in such suggestive ways. Like Plato. and Freud.
Poor Jin! She’s just insecure.. 🙁
Awwwwww
You asked for this, Alan. Just remember that.
Crying Jin is so cute. XD
Love the new site look. Yeah, I know, but I haven’t had time to comment until now.
And careful with that hug Alan, you’re in bed with a potential grenade. Good luck with that indeed, lol.
Is it bad that I want a bigger version of the last panel…? >_>
PURE GOLD!
it is funny the way we are always sure someone is not as miserable as we are about something!!!
Jin is insecure, yes. She has also been through this before in previous “lives.” Maybe she remembers that he will leave her anyway regardless of how things turn out. Maybe she remembers driving Alan away with her emotional exhibitions … or killing him during one …
I hope Alan doesn’t mind comforting a clay doll.
Speaking as a bipolar person – i know i’m hard to love.
Then again, there are people who haven’t experienced my bipolarness closely, and they’d say the same about me, anyway.
@Fairportfan: Yeah, I get the same thing. I’m also bipolar.
Somebody needs a hug! Great expression on Alan’s face!
I noticed the little Monica in the upper right of the webpage title changed! Will she be doing that every week?
I have been that boyfriend. Alan’s expression is perfect.
Poor Jin! Poor Alan too 😉
Aww, Jin needs a hug in the worst way! Just hold her, Alan!
Wait…. is it a coincidence that just after Monica banishes Jin’s Doubt, Jin has a massive attack of doubt?
Taking out frustrations on your host, are you?