Freud on Seuss

The Cat on the Couch

Break out the cigars! At Freud on Seuss, we finally learn what The Cat in the Hat was really all about, thanks to the trenchant insights of psychoanalysis. A sample:

The children, unable to control the Id, Ego, and Superego allow these creatures to run free and mess up the house, or more symbolically, control their lives. This rampage continues until the fish, or Christ symbol, warns that the mother is returning to reinstate the Oedipal triangle that existed before her abandonment of the children. At this point, Seuss introduces a many-armed cleaning device which represents the psychoanalytic couch, which proceeds to put the two youngsters' lives back in order.