ON FREUD’S INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
In Lectures XIX, XX and XXI of the book Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis, Freud carries out his analysis of neurosis in a scientific manner. He starts out by introducing the problem of resistance of the neurotic to psychoanalysis, and claims that these forces are the same forces of repression that cause the symptoms. Later he makes the interesting claim that the repressed are the sexual instincts and the symptoms are a way of satisfying them. I found Freud’s argument very organized and convincing; he gives an account for all phenomena and even answers to possible questions so that every argument is linked together in a logical network. Freud also tries to provide real life examples whenever he can, such as the behavior of children, sexually deviant people and even Ancient Egyptians when he explains the phenomena of finger sucking. However sometimes I found Freud’s argument a bit ambiguous and he seemed to over generalize, and this could be a result of his aim to prove that psychoanalysis is a universal X science. When Freud is analyzing the purpose of neurotic symptoms, he first claims that they sexuality. I found Freud’s attempts in showing that all people have common mental processes and there is no clear distinction between the normal and the neurotic very convincing. They should have been regarded a big improvement in his time when neurotics and sexually deviant f
people were perceived as less than human. Freud’s argument is also groundbreaking in its attitude toward homosexuality, claiming that all people have homosexual desires. Freud is very – brave and is not afraid to challenge the norms of his society, by denying the widely accepted notions of the innocence of childhood and the perception of sexual deviance as reproachable. Exist to give sexual satisfaction, then he corrects himself by assigning them the broader purpose repressing and satisfying sexual desires. Then he further asserts that in obsession neurosis they repress sexual desires, while in hysteria they satisfy them and further contradicts himself by saying in obsession neurosis they can do both in two actions, while in hysteria they are converged in one single symptom. I found this part of the argument rather weak. Freud tries to make his claims universal by pointing out that the same mental processes exist in both normal and neurotic people with slight differences, for example, perverted forms of sexuality are more pronounced among neurotics. Freud even broadens his claim by asserting that children also have.
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