Helsing posted:

I have seen a prof do that, sort of.

I had a seminar in my first year of undergrad on Nietszche, Christianity and Greek philosophy. Every week half the class prepared a two page write up on the readings for that week. In one class we had just read The Bachae by Euripides. One of the other students decided, without any prompting, to do this elaborate Freudian analysis of the text. "This character represents the Id, and that character is the Super Ego, and this event from the play is actually about the Oedipal complex, blah blah blah. " the student told me before class that this paper was his "baby".

After the student was finished reading his essay out the prof just kind of nodded and went, "ok, but you know somebody could read that and just conclude gee, this guy has gotta get laid."

Anyway the student never came back after that and the seminar was much improved.