Freud Response

Jeremy Kimmelstiel

In analyzing Freud’s work it is most common to explain his approach to psychology. While his writings have been considered groundbreaking because of his unique understanding of the human psyche it was not this that caught my eye in “Three Case Histories”. However, Freud’s ability to capture the reader in the story showed that he was indeed a master of psychology but also had immense lingual prowess.

Freud explains that language is one key factor in the psychoanalysis process. To explain this to the reader he uses case histories. This means the reader has the chance to sit in the seat of a psychologist, immerse him or herself in the story and examine the words of the patient. Without making clear his observations Freud allows the reader into the mind of both the patient and doctor.

While introducing his case histories Freud actually explains that he is attempting to give the reader an opportunity at analyzing particular stories. To contain the wherewithal to abstain from giving up the results of his investigations, Freud shows off his often unnoticed talent for writing.

Melding writing with psychology is something Freud did often, but is actually something that is present in all works of both fiction and non-fiction, admittedly, to a lesser degree. However, authors work diligently in sequencing words in a way that best touches upon emotions. Freud explains the idea of perception; it is perception-of-self that is the driving commonality between the cases. In fact, it is this perception that the author is trying to mold with his or her own words. A good book will make the reader feel like a part of the world, like they are sitting in the seat of the psychologist and analyzing what the characters are feeling.

Interestingly, “Three Case Histories” explains the idea of the reader perceiving an important role in the progression of a story. While doing so, Freud actually confirms his initiative by placing the reader in this exact position. Ultimately, Freud’s “Three Case Histories” was an analytical approach, unwrapping the ways in which words can capture the reader. Writing, as described by Freud, should take into account the ways in which the reader will perceive the material and how this perception will affect the reader. In doing so, the reader can create strong connections to the written works.

Yoong Min Kim 07/01/11
Prof. Rowan G. Tepper
Coli211Z

Freud Response
As we all know, Freud is very famous psychologist in the history of the world by far now. He loved to maintain and study on especially psychosexuality and eroticism related to people in mentally. Throughout of reading his book, Three cases history, of course, got my attention and interesting with cases of Rat man, Wolf man, and wife of god.
Case of Rat man could be simplified as two things; consciousness and unconsciousness. All human being have experienced with these things before, and they are so significant that makes your characteristic, trait, and personality; Consciousness and unconsciousness somehow interacts and influence us. For instance, I am not good listener. I used to be so distracted and do something else such as touching the phone, glancing around when my friends talk to me about their love stuffs no matter how serious they were. I consciously feel that I don’t want to hear uninterested things so that unconsciously do something else to appeal that I am not interested in. My friends don’t want to feel talking to me about their relationships in love.
The case of Wife of God could happen to most of human being. How pathetic it sounds if I live in lie or fictional life. However, all we have experienced this. For example, my friend had believed about his real identity. I mean, he strongly insisted that he was adopted in which he was an infant. He tried to find any evidences by searching on internet, asking around city hall and near adoption centers. However, it came out nothing. He was truly son of his present parents. I want to inform that this example is one of severe cases. There are such as belief in ghost, abduction by aliens, and being able to fly. In these days, we can reach to media that shows variety of fiction things; we can be affected unconsciously.
The last case is Wolf man. This case is how unwanted sexual experiences affect in your dream. This young guy had a dream of white wolf. He had been suffered to sleep in entire of his life since he had seen his parents having sex. All we do have scary dreams at least once in our lives; In fact, we were terrified of it. However, we forget about the dream after the moment we woke up and little later. Freud pointed that having fear dream is indicating something you were shocked at, sexuality stuffs, in which you were awake. For example, I saw an article about a woman had been sexual abused by her father. She always has a nightmare of being chasing by bunch of bees; it is mentally illness that a particular subject keeps showing up in your scary dream every time you think of what you saw from his parents.