Sigmund Freud Sarah Beers Brittany Mason Kelsey Bradley Alex Bainbridge Kayla Meunier

Biography Born: May 6 1856 Place: Freiberg, Moravia Education: Medical School, Researched Neurophysiology. Married at seventeen, and had two children (Emmanuel and Philipp). His second wife was named Rebecca , and his third Amalia Nathansohn .

His humor was passed down from his father, and his sentimentalism from his mother. Freud's books and lectures brought him both fame and ostracism from the mainstream of the medical community.

Major Theories Theory 1 – Id It is part of the personality the contains our primitive impulse – such as anger or hunger – and the desire for instant gratification or release. We are born with this. Based on our pleasure principle. It does whatever feels good at the time. It sometimes represents the devil sitting on someone’s shoulder.

Theory 2 - Superego Superego is the part of personality that represents the conscience, the moral part of us. Developed by our care givers, and is past on to us. It dictates our belief of right and wrong. Superego is sometimes represented by an angel sitting on someone’s shoulder.

Theory 3 - Ego It is the part of the personality that maintains a balance between our impulse (our id) and our conscience (our superego). Based on the reality principal. It understands that people have needs and desires and that sometimes being impulsive or selfish can hurt us in the end. It’s the ego’s job to meet the needs of the id, while taking into consideration the reality of the situation. It works to balance the id and super ego.

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Critic In some surprising ways, literary critics have shown that Freudian criticism does not exist in a vacuum. We might expect feminists to ignore Freud; but in fact several feminist critics have take an interest in Freud’s theories.

Luce Irigaray, for example, examines Freud’s belief that the female sexual identity results from a “castration complex”. According to Freud, when a girl realizes that she lacks a penis, the emotions which result from her lack of desire for a penis will lead her to submit to the social patriarchy. Irigaray takes issue with Freud and his method of defining female sexuality in terms of lack-of having “nothing”. Irigaray’s arguments leads us to wonder if it is not the “castration complex” which determines a woman’s role in the patriarchal system, but rather the definition of a woman as “nothing” which is reinforced by the roles of portrayals of women in society.

Work Cited http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/freud.html http://www.freudfile.org/ http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60a/psycho.html