As the Ego is slowly educated by the pressure of everyday necessity it is forced to give up the objects and aims which provide pleasure. Phantasy allows us to dwell on imaginary wish fulfillment.

Here in the imagination we can build a natural realm free from necessity where everything including all the noxious and useless can grow and proliferate.

Among neurotics there are three youthful experiences that occur repeatedly. These events are as likely to be phantasies as they are real – in both cases they will be equally important. Freud called these ‘Primal Phantasies’.

The thee phantasies are listed below followed by the cause.

• The observation of parental intercourse:
The unsatisfied socophilic (voyeuristic) instincts during puberty

• Seduction by an adult:
This phantasy is created as a screen against the shame of masturbation

• The threat of castration:
This is interpreted as a punishment for masturbation

To be honest there wasn’t really a whole lot to crack, just the definitions of private and public functions.

Essentially a public function will execute when the class is initialised, and a private function will wait to be called, and that’s all there is to it .

Try this out:

In a text editor create a file and name it TestClass.as

Type the following:

class TestClass{

public function foo(){
trace(“Hello from Foo”);
}

private function baa(){
trace(“Hello from Baa”);
}

}

Now create a new Flash document and save it in the same folder as TestClass.as

On frame one (or any other) type:

var myTestClass = new TestClass();

now publish your movie and you should get the output “Hello from Foo”

If you now add the following line:

myTestClass.baa();

publish your movie and you should get the output “Hello from Foo”, “Hello from Baa”

Yes, it really is that easy.

The path to perversion begins in same way as the construction of neurotic symptoms.

Repulsed by reality the Libido seeks other paths to satisfaction → it is lured into regression by earlier fixations → here the Libido may find satisfaction in these earlier organizations or from an object earlier abandoned → if the Libido meets no objection from the Ego a perversion arises.

The Libido and the Ego instincts behave in different ways towards real necessity.

• The Ego complies with necessity, and develops in accordance with the instruction of reality.

• The Libido begins development withdrawn from reality of necessity and often will remain inacessable to infulence.

Last weekend I discovered that Channel 4 has a secret public garden behind their beautiful HQ on Horseferry Road. I know that Richard Rodgers designed the building but I’m not sure if he had a hand in the climbing frame.

Looks as if Google have had the same idea too, but they acted on it, and now stand to make zillions of dollars.

Your $10 investment capital will buy you:

• A complete, web-based IT infrastructure for its business
• A custom corporate portal/intranet for its employees
• Corporate e-mail service
• Corporate instant messaging
• Calendar software and services
• Web-site design software
• Web-site hosting

And, by incorporating some other free Google services, the company also gets:

• Word-processing software
• Spreadsheet software
• Web-site analytics

Canny would-be zillionaires might be advised to hang on before splashing any cash as I have a feeling that Microsoft might try punching back with an offer of their own, which of course will be free.

Watch this space.

Self improvement is easy. All you need do is keep practising the same positive things every day, like cycling to work, blogging, playing the guitar, giving up watching TV, reading for an hour, you get the picture.

This particular trial has helped me to develop several subject areas that I feel real passion about, and now 30 days on I’m better able to develop them further.

The process of getting your thoughts down everyday also allows you to move on intellectually. When inspiration hits, get it down, or forget about it.

And so, if this is the end of the trial, what’s next? Well, being as this is post 31 I suppose the answer is already pretty obvious.

See you tomorrow.

Neurosis arises from a contention between wishful impulses, or a physical conflict.

A physical conflict consists of:
• An external frustration – the Ego
• An internal frustration – the Libido

Preconditions for Neurosis:
• Frustration
• Fixation – Forcing the libido in a particular direction
• A tendency to conflict

A tendency to conflict:

The Ego and the Libido develop independently, but still they have influence over one another.

If at some point during the development of the Libido a strong enough fixation is left behind → the Ego may accept this and become perverse / infantile → alternatively it may reject this point and repress the fixation.

In most respects the BBC operates like any normal business. It makes a good living from syndicating its programs at home and abroad. News 24 carries adverts in the form of sponsorship. And it also sells DVDs, books, and a range of other merchandise.

Why then is there a fear that commercialisation would stifle the BBC’s innovation and creativity? This makes no sense.

The TV License also gives the BBC a competitive advantage over every other British media and production company. Surly there is an argument then that any company who produces free, quality television is also entitled to a share of the TV License revenue?

In my opinion the BBC is a world class brand and is tough enough to fend for itself.

BTW Thanks very much to the BBC’s director-general Mark Thompson for publishing my initial comment (I’m sure he rubber stamps them all).

The libido is unsatisfied when it is in conflict → this gives rise to frustration → forcing the libido to look for other paths to satisfaction → if these paths arose displeasure and force a veto → symptoms are constructed as a substitute satisfaction.

• The oil supply is being squeezed, so the cost of energy is increasing, this had lead to higher manufacturing costs, making cars more expensive.

• Using your car is also more expensive, further decreasing its value.


The Harmful effect the product has on the consumer:

• Manufacturing and using cars damages the environment

• Cars don’t recycle easily, again damaging the environment


Tapping progress on the shoulder and saying “More forwards!”. Is a computer that can walk up a flight of stairs how you define progress?

Progress for the Automotive Industry would be a small unit that bolts onto the engine of a Honda Civic improving the gas mileage and removing the pollution from the exhaust.

I’d also like a factory where old Civics roll in one end and the new ones out the other, that would be progess too.

Henry Ford was defiantly onto something when he began using the wooden planks from the shipping crates as floor boards for his Model-T.

They did manage however to get some clear insights from the repairmen they interviewed. There were no spare parts for the products they wanted mending, and the cost of any labour would always exceed the value of a replacement. The effect of this combination was putting the repairmen out of business.

We also learnt that the products keeping the repair business alive are the Dyson Vacuum Cleaner, and the Dualit toaster. If you own either of these it’s obvious why. Both are constructed with bolts instead of glue, both are very rugged and both have easy to obtain spare parts.

I expect my Dyson will last me at least 20 years.

So what about the repairmen? Well, companies must only design Responsible Products, we should only buy Responsible Products – they will give better service and be cheaper in the long run and finally, products need to be linked at the point of purchase with a local repairman.

If you’d like to jazz up the stock Flash List component - like the one I made in this tutorial, you only need a few extra lines of code. It’s all fairly self explanatory, just make sure the instance name ‘aList’ matches the name of your list.

aList.setStyle("fontFamily", "impact");
aList.setStyle("fontSize", 14);
aList.setStyle("color", 0xD20000);
aList.setStyle("rollOverColor", "white");
aList.setStyle("backgroundColor", 0xF1D951);
aList.setStyle("selectionColor", "black");
aList.setStyle("textSelectedColor", "white");