SSY 240.1949
Extra Credit Project
Rachel Bianca Mallari
Prof. J. Pierre-Louis
Analysis for Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud is recognize as one of the most influential and authoritative figure in the modern era. His psychoanalytic concept has stir critical debates and arguments in his focus on sexual gratification including infants. His whole concept of pleasure principle (the unconscious) and reality principle (the conscious) gave an entire different perspective for psychologists, philosophers, and sociologists.
Personally, I think that Freud himself was very much a Freudian.
Looking back in Freud’s childhood, he had suffered an emotional crisis on the death of his father. His emotional trauma materialize through series of dreams and became the basis of his core masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams. Although
Freud loved his father, he also loathed him. He had mixed feelings which Freud called ambivalence. One of the reason why Freud despised his father was because his father was his competition in having his mother’s affection. He fancied that his real father was his half brother Philip. In Freud’s theory, there was a mention of Oedipus complex which means that a boy is in love with the parents of the opposite sex. This might be what Freud was experiencing during his early days.
I conclude that Freud is relating his own experiences in his theories. His

excessive emphasis on sexual urges made me think that he had suppressed sexual desires. They mentioned that Freud didn’t want Ana to be married. It’s not because of the usual father concern but he has hidden yearning for her. It is socially unacceptable to have feelings for your own child that goes beyond what parents should. His theories seems to me a revelation of his personal life only coated with other scientific facts.