"I can ask," he concedes. 

"Your work looked fine today. I hope you won't be too distracted to keep it up, I usually don't have students who actually know how to use their brains." 

"It's one of my qualities, using my brain. I try to keep it up."

"I'll believe it when I see it."

He writes her a note, outlining each letter with care, and slides it across the desk. 

"I'll see you tomorrow, Ms. Iroko."

"Until tomorrow!"

To her next class.

Would she like to allow Freud to penetrate her subconscious? 

...not particularly but she can pretend.

Freud is considered trash science, but he was a big influence on the modern field, so studying him is useful so we can know whichever things come from him (and thus, ought to be ignored aggressively). 

On the other hand, he did have positive contributions by introducing early therapy.

Jackson surreptitiously checks his phone, in between doodling. 

Ade gets hers and messages him: Tsk tsk, using your phone in class. Shame, shame, shame.

It's an ego defense mechanism: textualization. 

What could your ego possibly need to defend against?

Tiny superego, but reality and id still leaves me with two masters.

Hmm, I try to ignore my id and make my ego match reality, but when reality disagrees with my superego the superego's right.

Do you keep your ambition there, or are you more boring than I thought? 

My ambition's there, yes. My superego says 'The world is broken. Fix it.' It is, of course, right.

That's admirable. What's your next step?

It involves a secret conspiracy and magic, I can't tell you about it.

Good luck with that. 

Does anyone know what sublimation is?

Vaguely.

In psychology, sublimation is a defense mechanism in which socially unacceptable and immoral impulses of the id are transformed into socially acceptable behavior. Unlike denial or projection, sublimation is a relatively mature response to anxiety.

This will be on the test.

Of course it will.

Here's a brief aside on how anxiety in the Freudian sense is an outdated concept, and defense mechanisms probably don't exist!

And there's the bell.

Next class!

Spanish proceeds in the usual fashion. The teacher is lax about students talking, as long as they sprinkle in some Spanish vocabulary.