Freud Speech

Here is my rough outline of my Freud speech, hope it was a good one.


My name is Sigmund Freud and I was born in Morovia, Austria on May 6 1856. I

founded psychoanalytic school of psychology, created the idea of Unconscious Mind and the

defense mechanism of repression. Sexual Desire is a concept here and so is my interpretation of

dreams; the connections with dreams and awake hours. I am the godfather of Psychoanalysis

and have a literary criticism that I call my own. My Freudian Criticism not only examines the

text, but also the author. On a base level of criticism you may find the run of the mill phallic

symbol in the text and the question of if the author consciously or unconsciously meant anything

by certain actions or objects in the text. On the next level is the use of psycho-biographic

analysis, which involves the authors childhood experiences, fantasies, the Oedipus complex, and

repressions that somehow effect the concepts within the text. Then there is Ego-analysis which

attempts to show the pleasure within artistic creation that the reader and the author experience.

As you can see I have constructed quite a few theories and works in my time and I would further

say that I am awesome; sorry there goes my ego again...

Thanx

Test Question

My question or subject I'm bringing to class tomorrow will be about Freud's definition of psycho-biographic analysis; it's meaning and applications.

Universal symbols

There are symbols in literature such as food, drink, death, light, darkness, marriage, and other concepts that are universal to man and require no set language. Many of these symbols deal with marriage or lovemaking, such as much of the Indian architecture in which they use sculptures to depict multiple couples making love on the wall of temples or other important buildings. In all cultures there is of course the phallic symbol. This is where Freud steps in and would tell you that the phallic symbol, and any other sexually involved symbols, is the most dominant and easiest to communicate between peoples. The base instincts of man urge us to create sexual and nature scenes of courtship in all forms of the arts, especially literature. Humans are sexual beings.

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud is my critic for this semester and here is a nice picture of him. He doesn't look too happy now does he?