Freud's Patriarchal View

Among those interested in learning more we can find Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, and William James. For Sigmund Freud, hysteria became an enigma mostly because it was frequently identified as a disorder suffered by women. Through his conversations with women who suffered panic symptoms, he identified past traumatic experiences as the main cause of this syndrome. Freud findings helped to gain a better understanding of the symptoms of hysteria. Freud’s research put him in the middle of a personal disagreement, influenced by a political and social controversy that removed him from further study of this

Another important idea in this chapter has to do with the Oedipus complex. Freud had many patients whom were hysterical and he blamed this on the molestation from parents, but later retracted this idea saying that it could have been just a fantasy that the patient believed. Could it be that this could be a biological disorder in the brain that blocks them from ever overcoming the Oedipus complex?

Nonetheless, the idea of penis envy becomes extremely important when examining Freud’s view on women for several reasons. Freud based the majority of his work on female sexual and personality development around penis envy, and Freud held the view that considered penis envy as natural and universal in all women (Slipp 16). According to Freud, the realization by the little girl that they had no penis was the defining moment in the realization of a female’s sexual identity. In The Feminist Legacy of Karen Horney, Marcia Westkott comments: “In sum, the Freudian concept of penis envy explains all one needs to understand of female behavior” (53). Freud

In the short story The Gold Mountain Coat by Jody Fong-Bates, the narrator is a young girl, shown as observant and shy, facing the difficulties of having to fulfill the roles she has to play for her family and friends by meeting the expectations they place upon her. The narrator is from China, newly immigrated to Canada, living with her parents who operate a hand laundry in a small town in Ontario. Throughout the story, the narrator is perceptive towards her surroundings, constantly watching the interactions of her parents and the other family that run the Chinese restaurant in town. The narrator is quite unconfident in the presence of others, particularly in the company of Sam, who runs the Chinese restaurant, constantly struck speechless

During one of the first treatments, Dora recounts an unfavorable situation in which Herr K. arranges a meet between Dora, Frau K. and himself. Against Dora’s knowledge Herr K. convinces Frau K. to stay at home to be alone with Dora. Upon her arrival, Herr K. pulls “down the outside shutters […] and, instead of going out the open door, suddenly [clasps] the girl to him and [presses] a kiss upon her lips” (21). Freud immediately begins to analyze the situation in stating the strangeness of Dora’s reaction. Instead of eliciting sexual excitement, the encounter evokes a “violent feeling of disgust” (21) and the need to flee. Freud states that any person “in whom an occasion for sexual excitement elicited feelings that were preponderantly or exclusively unpleasurable” (22) is undoubtedly hysterical. With this claim, he gives no concrete evidence to support this theory except his limited knowledge on

Until the medical breakthroughs that we have made in the modern day, psychology as a science was not fully understood. Modern technology has given us a clearer idea of psychology, but in the past there was less known about the science. This alongside a predominantly male medical discourse led to a medical diagnosis in many women called hysteria. Female hysteria was a medical diagnosis given to specifically women as far back as the ancient Greek civilization. Hysteria started as a supernatural phenomena, but as medicine evolved it would be described as a mental disorder, (Tasca). Hysteria. in actuality, is an absurd and fabricated diagnosis that institutionalized and discriminated countless women. The way it makes a women feel, and the fact that it strips a woman of any sort of free will is a sickening display of blatant misogyny. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman perfectly displays not only the misogyny, but the torture a woman must face trapped under a hysteria diagnosis. Hysteria as a diagnoses fails to effectively treat many women, instead leading to the mistreatment and wrongful institutionalization of women.

Freud suggests that both boys and girls are significantly attached to their mothers in the pre-Oedipal stage. He does not give this stage much importance. Then, as children grow into the Oedipal stage, they discover their main differences; their genitals. This spurs penis envy in the girls as they realize they are lacking some impressive equipment. The boy seeing the girl’s lack of a penis think that the girl used to have one and got it cut off as a punishment for something. This prompts the boy’s fear of castration. At this point, the children see their opposite sex parent as their love interest. The boy see the father as competition for the mother’s love and the girls see the mother as competition for the father’s love. The boy stifles pursuit of the mother in fear of being punished by castration. The girl hopes that the father will give her a penis if she loves him well enough. Freud never gives the girl a reason to fear the mother and cease her pursuit of the

More specifically, Freud traces the roots of all adult behaviors back to childhood impulses and showed how conflicts related to the development of sexuality in childhood subsequently results in psychopathology or neuroses. (Good & Beitman)

Freud’s theory of personality examined the interplay between the primitive, instinctual urges—the ‘id’; the practical and rational ‘ego’; and the morally attuned ‘superego’; ‘object relations’ refer to the "object" of an instinct”, which is “the agent through which the instinctual aim is achieved”—most often a person and, according to Freud, most often the mother (Ainsworth 1969, p. 1). The psychosexual development theory that Freud launched reduces our behaviour to mechanistic responses to an instinctive need for pleasure fueled by the ‘libido’ and barriers or distortions to the gratification of the libido at various delineated stages of development were responsible for later problems in life (Kail & Zolner 2012, p. 5). Erik Erikson later added depth to the approach by including more humanistic elements to Freud’s stages and including more periods of development (p.

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), was an influential Austrian psychologist and the founder of psychoanalysis. Freud went on to produce several theories, such as his theory on psychosexual development, which will be the focus of this assignment. Using the case study of a six-year-old patient, I will discuss the key principles of Freud’s theory on psychosexual development. Including, comprehensive definitions of the concepts used, and the stages of Freud’s psychosexual development. Lastly using Freud’s theory, I will explain how the patient’s current behaviour, could impact her behaviour in adulthood.

It feels as though most of the time when thinking about psychology and the great contributions that have been made to it, that most of them have been from men, but along the way there have been several influential women that have contributed to the field of psychology as well. Just like men, there were several women who were pioneers, theorists, and counselors; many of these women have contributed to the field of psychology in their own special between the years of 1850 and 1950. Of all these amazing women who are pioneers, theorists, and counselors, the one who stands out the most is Anna Freud. This paper will go on to explain Anna Freud’s

Freud continued his work on repression, memories, and past experiences of trauma to be the motive for all neurotic symptoms. Trauma in past experiences was not always the key determinant for hysteria cases, there needed to be another component for the cause. The combination of past trauma and present trauma awakened memories of the earlier trauma which constituted the true aggravation (Storr, 1989, p. 15). However, he began to see a common factor in his work. Next Freud noticed that a common denominator of all his hysteria cases was premature sexual experiences. Sex encompasses many emotions through mind, body, and spirit that can influence a great deal of character if repressed. Storr pointed out that, “Freud became more and more convinced that the chief

Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality", written in 1905, attempted to trace the course of the development of the sexual instinct in human beings from infancy to maturity. This instinct is not simply an animal instinct but is specific to both human culture and the form of conscious and unconscious life we live within it. For Freud sexuality is infinitely complicated and far-reaching in its effects and forms the basis of self-identity and interactions. His Third Essay discusses the transformations of puberty in both males and females. Part four of this essay focuses on the differentiation between male and female sexuality. Freud states in this part that 'as far as the autoerotic and masturbatory manifestations of sexuality

This research paper will compare and contrast two of the most influencial psychologists who helped shape the way we understand the development of the human mind; Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. The paper will focus on the similarities and differences between Freud’s Psycho-sexual theory, and Erikson’s psychosocial theory. Freud was one of the very first influencial psychologists who changed the way we study humans. Erikson recognized Freud’s contributions, and although he felt Freud misjudged some important dimensions of human development, he was still influenced by Freud, which caused some similarities in their theories.

At the turn of the 20th century, Freud published his now infamous case study of Dora, a young woman he temporarily treated for hysteria. His findings and explanations for the woman’s affliction are particular and in my opinion, peculiar. He concludes that the reason that Dora has such hysteria and afflictions is ultimately caused by her psychological trauma stemming from her sexual repression. Even though Freud published this case over a hundred years before the release of “Puppy Love”, the troupe of sexual repression as the root of