I like to thk that, were he alive today, Sigmund Frd would agree gay nversn therapy is unnecsary and cel.
Contents:
- WHAT WOULD SIGMUND FRD SAY ABOUT GAY-NVERSN THERAPY?
- ANNA FRD, PAPA SIGMUND AND GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
- LUCIAN FRD’S GAY RELATNSHIPS EXPLORED NEW EXHIBN
- GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
- THE COLORFUL MORN HISTORY OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
WHAT WOULD SIGMUND FRD SAY ABOUT GAY-NVERSN THERAPY?
Anna Frd's Gay Conversn Therapy * was sigmund freud gay *
Sigmund believed that homosexualy men is nrotic but not particularly problematic. ) beatg a child who had ma a mistake over which she had no ntrol (Anna and her homosexualy? Fact, a lot pots towards him havg more than jt “iendly” relatnships wh his male iends and judgg by letter rrponnce unvered wh for example Wilhelm Flis appears the relatnship was passnate, timate and most probably of homosexual nature.
ANNA FRD, PAPA SIGMUND AND GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
In a letter wrten as a rponse to an acquatance that shared that he had dreamed of Frd naked he rpond, “You probably image that I have secrets que other than those I have rerved for myself, or you believe that (my secret) is nnected wh a special sorrow, whereas I feel pable of handlg everythg and am pleased wh the rultant greater pennce that om havg overe my homosexualy, ’’. ’’Today s monly unrstood that victims of sexual abe, when not havg addrsed and rolved the trma, tend to higher equenci pass on the vlence to the next first and favore dghter Anna showed signs of distrs and mental illns which later gave her the scriptn of a “jealo, prsed, masochistic, anorectic, latent-homosexual teenager”. ” He lgered on the homonym until I grasped his meang, my face turng red.
LUCIAN FRD’S GAY RELATNSHIPS EXPLORED NEW EXHIBN
It was a few days after I had left for my sophomore year of llege. Two months earlier, my son had told our immediate fay that he was gay, but he had been reluctant to share this more wily.
On the other hand, that same year Frd: A Life for Our Tim, Peter Gay (a Yale-affiliated historian wh no profsnal allegiance to Frd’s ias) lled that particular psychoanalysis “a most irregular proceedg, ” and Frd’s cisn to analyze Anna, “a lculated floutg of the l he had la down wh such force and precisn. Both Gay and Young-Behl named the analys primary topic: Anna’s masturbatn fantasi, which were equent, vlent, and masochistic. In the beatg fantasi that she discsed wh her father she played the role of a male (albe a male a homoerotic relatnship wh another male).
GAY CONVERSN THERAPY’S DISTURBG 19TH-CENTURY ORIGS
Sigmund Frd may have analyzed his gay dghter out of fear. ” This is om Frd’s New Introductory Lectur on Psychoanalysis, 1932, Chapter 5 (eded by Jam Strachey) and quoted the 1965 Frd: Dictnary of Psychoanalysis, eded by Nandor Fodor and Frank Gaynor (Fawcett Publitns).
[12] Diagnosg a female homosexual patient, Frd says "[a]fter her disappotment [wh her father], therefore, this girl had entirely repudiated her wish for a child, the love of a man, and womanhood altogether....
She changed to a man, and took her mother place of her father as her love-object" ("The Psychogenis of a Case of Homosexualy a Woman, " Sexualy and the Psychology of Love, ed. [13] Frd wr “Some Nrotic Mechanisms Jealoy, Paranoia, and Homosexualy” (1922), “We subsequently disvered, as another powerful motive urgg towards homosexual object-choice, regard for the father or fear of him…. ” Frd: New Introductory Lectur on Psychoanalysis, 1932, Chapter 5, quoted Frd: Dictnary of Psychoanalysis, eded by Nandor Fodor and Frank Gaynor.
THE COLORFUL MORN HISTORY OF GAY CONVERSN THERAPY
Sigmund Frd, who is named as the father of psychoanalysis, was surprisgly open md regards to homosexualy and bisexualy.