Essays on Sigmund Freud

Civilization and its Discontents, is, in great part, a philosophical treatise, in which Freud tries to replace a metaphysical, idealistic framework with a psychological one. He does so by using a performative, therapeutic style of argumentation, in which he encourages the reader to analyze philosophical...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Genealogy of Morals” and Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents,” have similar goals. Both men want to expose what they see as the impediments of society on the freedom of the individual. Both attack and condemn organized religion as a disguise for...

Sigmund Freud, author of Civilization and Its Discontents, is widely regarded as the father and originator of modern psychology. Through the formation of his now-famous four divisions of the human brain the ego, the id, the libido, and the super-ego Freud changed the way man...

In his treatise Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud makes an interesting statement about advanced society. He argues that “the price of progress in civilization is paid in forfeiting happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt,” to defend his argument that guilt is becoming...

A recurring theme throughout the novel, Civilization and Its Discontents, is the dogged mission of mankind attempting to achieve happiness, but always falling short. “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks” (Freud...

In the case history of Anna O., Freud’s coworker Breuer makes no mention of when Anna coins the phrase “private theatre.” The abstraction reveals in itself two distinct personalities, and thus a notable self-awareness. It cannot be that in the midst of a daydream, she...

Actually – and I confess this to you with a struggle – I have a boundless admiration for you both as a man and a researcher, and I bear you no conscious grudge… My veneration for you has something of a “religious” crush. –Carl Jung,...

Sigmund Freud represents an extremely rare breed of literary genius. His ability to delve into the human subconscious and extrapolate meaning from the apparently nonsensical gives his works an exploratory, constantly twisting feel that finds its own place in the history of literature. In particular,...

Sigmund Freud, as a nineteenth century neurologist, intricately studied the workings of the human mind, leading him to develop a controversial theory termed psychoanalysis. He differentiated between that which we knowingly do and think, and what that which we unconsciously repress, constructing a model of...

Patricia Highsmith, the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, portrays a protagonist on the precipice of insanity. Mr. Ripley shows many qualities of a person with borderline personality disorder, or more commonly called: a psychopath. A book titled, The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley,...

Stereotypes and presumptions about sex have always permeated American culture and society. From taboos to perversions to fetishes, sex and the things that come with it; relationships, marriages, and all else, have been fraught with misunderstanding. For most of history, human sexuality remained an unexplored...

Theory of Development: Freud vs. Erikson Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson believed that personality is developed in certain fixed stages. However, Erikson disagreed with some parts of Freud’s theory of psychosexual development so he modified this theory by creating his own theory of psychosocial...

Erik Ericson was a psychologist who was heavily influenced by another doctor named Sigmund Freud. While Freud spoke from a psychosexual perspective, Erikson was a little different and spoke about the psychosocial stages. He speaks the super ego and id of a human, certain crisis...

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung both author two separate Psychodynamic Theories of Personality. While former colleagues and even close friends at one time, differences related to their studies led to a falling out. After Jung and Freud’s split, Jung spoke about being in a suffocating...

Each section of the three parts of the mind develops at a particular age, first to develop is the ID. When a baby is born, it’s mind is bombarded with instinctual drives which are collectively called the ID. The ID only wants its desires fulfilled,...

Sigmund Freud says that “a dream is a disguised fulfillment of a repressed wish”. What he means is that every dream represents a wish fulfillment. Dreams represent the imaginary fulfillment of a wish or impulse in early childhood, before such wishes have been repressed. The...

In creating psychoanalysis, Freud developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association and discovered transference, establishing its central role in the analytic process. Freud’s redefinition of sexuality to include its infantile forms led him to formulate the Oedipus complex as the central tenet...

This past weekend I went over Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and Its Discontents” briefly and thoroughly. First I started off by doing some research on Sigmund Freud and found out that he was an insightful Jewish man from Hungary, Austria who grew up in a sexually...

The structural portion of Psychoanalytic theory by Sigmund Freud, attempts to explain how the unconscious mind function with three distinct components, namely id, ego and superego and how the conflict between two of the three component could give rise to Marilyn’s behaviours when her phobia...

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian psychiatrist/psychologist, neurologist, and philosopher whom is famously known for his psychoanalysis methods for clinical treatments of people with mental disorders. In this essay, I will be explaining Freud’s theories and ideologies on society, culture, and religion. Specifically the psychological built...

Freudian Theory Freudian theory is theory developed by Sigmund Freud, which is the psychoanalytic theory of consumer personality development, which argued personality is formed through conflicts. Conflicts in human’s minds are usually formed of 3 components, the ID, ego and superego. Freudian theory is basically...

Protagonists in most of Robert Browning’s monologues are psychologically twisted individuals, and Porphyria’s Lover is arguably the one with a psychoanalytic perspective. This essay seeks to discuss and apply Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory to the poem. To start with, there is a sharp contrast between...

The film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, tells the story of Joel Barish and his girlfriend Clementine Kruczynski. The movie begins on Valentine’s day, and Joel is about to go to work, but suddenly runs to another train that is heading to Montauk. He...

“The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe is a morbid story about the change the narrator undergoes and the gruesome and disturbing nature of his behaviors. Through the narrator’s development in the story, his behavior can be investigated by using an aspect Sigmund Freud’s theory...

The movie “Good Will Hunting” is based on Will Hunting (Matt Damon), a twenty-year-old self-taught genius, who has a job as a janitor at MIT. Will comes from a low-class neighborhood in South Boston, living in a bad house with violence and crime all around....

According to the human psychology cycle of self-development, there are a few stages. The beginning of the self-development process starts with the date of childbirth. During the Early Childhood period, the kids’ abilities are focused on understanding their life-discovery with prerequisites for evolution. The newborn...

Most of the time when reading a theory in the midst of reading it you know that this theory probably isn’t true and it is rare when you can find a theory that is partly true or totally and completely true. When we went over...

Repression is the consent where a person goes through a traumatic experience so the person unconsciously pushes the information out of consciousness and becomes unaware of its existence, repressing them and leaving them in the unconscious mind. Sigmund Freud talks about repression himself in “Five...

Nervous Conditions and Coconut are two novels which intrinsically showcase the challenges that arise after colonisation. The exploration of the complex position that African women face in the light of the detrimental effects of colonisation and its influence as it assimilates with traditional structures. The...

Initially founded by Sigmund Freud in the late nineteenth century, psychoanalysis introduced a whole new perception of the human mind, forming both ground-breaking and controversial theories. In his thesis, ‘Beyond the Pleasure Principle,’ Freud illustrates psychoanalysis as ‘the first and foremost art of interpretation.’ Which...