According to “Freud and His Critics” by Paul Robinson, “Freud believed that when childhood sexual experiences are repressed, they return as neurotic symptoms, whereas when they are simply responded to pleasurably and acted upon, the individual escapes illness, so to speak, by becoming a pervert” (6). In other words, Freud was trying to argue that young children have sex drives that can cause mental illness or perversion later in life. To further drag Freud’s darkness into the light, he studied 500 breastfeeding infants for an experiment. According to “Critique of Psychoanalysis” published by an unnamed author on www.socrates.berkeley.edu, “Freud argued that infants nursing at their mother’s breast displayed ‘orgasmic’ behavior, such as rubbing the genitals or breast, pelvic thrusting, and falling asleep afterwards.” The article carries on to explain that less than 1% of the infants observed by Freud actually displayed those characteristics while breastfeeding. If that wasn’t enough, another one of Freud’s patients under the pseudonym Dora was
According to “Freud and His Critics” by Paul Robinson, “Freud believed that when childhood sexual experiences are repressed, they return as neurotic symptoms, whereas when they are simply responded to pleasurably and acted upon, the individual escapes illness, so to speak, by becoming a pervert” (6). In other words, Freud was trying to argue that young children have sex drives that can cause mental illness or perversion later in life. To further drag Freud’s darkness into the light, he studied 500 breastfeeding infants for an experiment. According to “Critique of Psychoanalysis” published by an unnamed author on www.socrates.berkeley.edu, “Freud argued that infants nursing at their mother’s breast displayed ‘orgasmic’ behavior, such as rubbing the genitals or breast, pelvic thrusting, and falling asleep afterwards.” The article carries on to explain that less than 1% of the infants observed by Freud actually displayed those characteristics while breastfeeding. If that wasn’t enough, another one of Freud’s patients under the pseudonym Dora was