Simpsons and Freudian Dream Theory

S23Ep6 Analysis

Lisa's dream can be explained by the events of the episode, in which she is running for school president against her conservative Republican friend.  The dream is a wish-fulfillment of her desire for affirmation and for political power.  The dream also quells her feelings of inadequacy about losing the election.  These feelings are equated with her father, and the dream expresses a repressed anger at Homer and a desire that he be completely absent from her life.  Clinton affirms this when he says that both he and Lisa were raised by a single mother, and the fact that the male authority figures praising her are ghosts can be interpreted as a condensation of them with Homer, and a death wish against them.
                                                                                                                                      
Homer's dream is more difficult to apply this kind of analysis to, because it is unlikely that he and Lisa would be having such similar dreams and that he would be dreaming of Clinton at all.  However, if we suspend disbelief (it's a cartoon, after all!) we can interpret this as highlighting Homer's lack of interest in politics, and by extension, his daughter's endeavors.  Instead, he is shown only to be concerned with Bill Clinton's "fun" side-- an allusion to Homer's sexual desires.
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