Freud

When you look at an innocent little banana, your 'Id' is thinking (and loving) very very very BAD things....and your super ego is keeping you sane, politically correct, socially controlled, and calm. But then again, perhaps Freud's thinking  is not entirely 'you wants to have sex with your mother and kill your father' (obsession with actual sexual acts):

'Among the most significant contributions of Freud is the insight that not all of sexuality (desire, physical excitement, and heightened emotional productivity/sensitivity) is experienced within the context of recognisable sexual acts. And by the same token, not all recognizable sexual acts are ever totally the control of sexuality' (William Simon 1996, p. 137).

Some critic on Freud's psychoanalytic methods:

'Psychoanalytic discourse continues to predicate an emotionally dense infancy and childhood ... meanings and interpretations derived from later experience represented by metaphors of earlier experience. "Castration anxiety" has the ring of plausibility to the post pubertal man because it so neatly sums up, for all but the insensitive and unconflicted, his continuing fear of failing as a man' (William Simon 1996, p. 154).

Bibliography:

William, Simon (1996) Postmodern Sexualities. Routledge 1996



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