Sunday, August 7, 2016
The thing About Freud
There's this interesting little thing about Sigmund Freud when it comes to AP courses. He seems to sneak his way into every single one of them. He's the basis of most psychological greats in the AP Psyche course. He's the reason everything connects to sex in lit. He developed theories that help us understand why the poletics of our gov class run the way they do. As in music, where everything is either Pacabelle or John Philip Souza, in the world of AP, everything is Shakespear, the Bible, of Freud. But why is he everywhere. What in our culture is so enamored with him that his ideas continually pop up. Actually, the answer may lie in the whole "all stories are connected" thing. We love Freud because he put what we already see in society into words. Society came first and Freud just analyzed it. So the reason Freud turns up is because he already permeated society so much in the first place, only we didn't know it was him yet. What does this mean for literature? This gives us yet another vantage point to look at what we read. Where is that from? It sounds a little like Freud!
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