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Whenever we hear people mention Freud or psychoanalysis, the conversation always comes to sex. Or to sexuality in a broader sense.
Nowadays Freud is mostly seen as an old fart who was incredibly wrong about many things. I won’t argue that he was wrong on many things, such as “taming fire with urine”. (Shout out to Jake Ryan). Or he believed females felt lesser because they didn’t have a penis like men…
But I believe what he brought to the table is overlooked. After all, he was the one who decided that talking therapy would be a better solution than hypnosis. Before him, mental illnesses were perceived much differently and the “treatments” were far less humane.
I also wrote about how he developed the theory of narcissism in the past.
Anyways enough butt-licking. Today I would like to talk about how Freud saw and developed Sexuality.
Introduction:
In Freudian theory, sexuality is the main element of the subject’s psyche (it is the language according to Lacan for example).
Sexuality is inseparable from the subject. It appears to the reader through all of Freud’s major works that sexuality has an important role, whatever the subject is; He could be talking about; dreams, early childhood development, neurotic disorders, symptoms…
He underlines We all are under the influence of this since the very first days of our lives. Day and night, consciously or unconsciously.
We are all driven by our impulses, and our desires (including our sexual desires). The acceptance or repression of these desires shapes the psyche of an individual in an undeniably important way.
