Persons And Things Analysis

During class, we learned about Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud was a famous psychologist who associated sex with a human’s personal psyche. He worked with many different ways of analysis through dreams and the psyche. I think that Freud was an interesting man with interesting views on the human psyche. I found out that Freud used the subconscious, unconscious, dreams (dream analysis and divination/oneiromancy- the interpretation of dreams in order to foretell the future), psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy in order to determine a person’s psyche. Upon reading Persons and Things by Barbara Johnson, I found that Freud used the psyche to explain fetishism. Johnson explains that, “Baudelaire, Marx, and Freud, as typical man of the nineteenth century, were sure they knew that men more primitive than themselves were fetish-worshippers, and found in the sensual enjoyment of the material something divine. A figure that is a thing in the world, and not just a representation of one, can itself contain the heightened aliveness it gives access to, and can be an object of
Klages explains that, “the Oedipus Complex explains how desires get repressed, how these repressed desires form the unconscious, how girls and boys learn to desire objects outside of their own families, how each sex learns to desire someone of the opposite sex, and how the superego—the reality principle, or what we call ‘conscience’—gets formed” (Klages 68). Then, Klages goes into analysis of the Oedipus Complex. She explains how people become attracted to the other sex, but men are protective of their mothers because of the bond that they develop with their mothers at birth. She also explains how their mother is their first love object and their mother’s body is their first experience of pleasure. I find this to be an interesting topic because it explains the closeness of infants to their parents and how man are protective of the women of their