The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman by Sigmund Freu

In The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman, Freud discusses a case of a young charr brought to him by her p atomic number 18nts for treatment as a homosexual. Although he states that Psychoanalysis is non truly a tool for curing homosexuality, but one to attend to those with inner conflict in one particular area or a nonher, he attempts to study the girl to see if Psychoanalysis could be of some(prenominal) help to her. Once he realized that the girl had a duncish rooted bitterness towards men, he called off his study of her and told her parents that if they were to seek much psychoanalysis for her it should be sought from a woman. Prior to this discoery he found a few things of interest that may cast attributed to her alternative of sexual object. One of the first things Freud thought about was whether the patient was a homosexual from birth or whether she changed her object choice later in life. At the time it was thought that homosexuals had characteris tics (physical a psychical) of the opposite sex. Though at that place were a few of these found in the girl, they were not strong becoming to count for much. She was tall like her father and her features were sharper quite an than bats and feminine, but she was still a beautiful and well developed girl. As far as psychical characteristics that were more masculine, he listed sharp comprehension, and objectiveness in that her passion did not have complete control over her. Still there were women at the time who had traits such as these and were not homosexual. The characteristic the girl displayed that was the most manly, however, was the way she acted and thought in regards to the madam she was in love with. The girl preferred to think of herself as the lover, not the beloved. Simply being allowed to... ... had been there for the birth of one of her brothers and it had not do her. Yet when her second brother was born she completely switched her object choice. This co uld have been a coincidence, but I am of the school that says there are no coincidences. All things have reason behind them, somewhere. Though Freud had issues with women which wrought his views on cases such as this one somewhat unalikely, he remained rather objective throughout. His reasoning behind the events that brought the girl to him made sound, logical sense. regular his reason for dumping this case and suggesting they take it up with a different psychoanalysist made a lot of sense. It is definitely more logical than move ahead against and almost un-budge-able brick wall build up of bitterness and acerbity of men. All in all I was pretty impressed by a man who many bad mouth today.