Chapter four

Freud based his theory upon the story of Oedipus. In my personal opinion I feel like he stretches it too far with the theory when apply it to women. That mostly likes has to deal the time he was conducting his research. He did take in conduct for other psychological disorder one might have or what past experience had on people. We saw this with the case of Dora, his diagnosis was hysteria just because she didn’t want to get married. There are some valid points to Freud it does not play into biologic factors. It really looks at how the child was raised. The only biological factor is whether or not you are male or female. Depending on what sex you are is how you are supposed to grow up. I have to side with the feminist on this one more. We have to look more at how the children are reared; rather than their biology. We also can’t have “normal standard” for how men and women are suppose to be. If they don’t fix a certain box they were expected in society. This is still an issue today. We have ideal ways in which people are suppose to behave. The other thing that frustrated me with this chapter was how Freud and other men also claim that women were inferior because they did not have a penis. I understand that it was part of the times however it such a ridiculous claim. That claim helps Freud to infer why young girls and boys separated from their mothers eventually.