Analysis #3 - Psychoanalysis

Freud first wrote psychoanalysis in an attempt to understand why people act the way they do and tries to connect it with childhood behavior. This is a form of therapy he devised to understand the way people ultimately think. Freud says that the super-ego as he calls it and the unconscious mind are in fact two separate but equal perpetrators of why a person may think and behave as they do and how their emotional state steers the way they think. As for Lacan, he sees no separation in the two and that they are in fact one and the same, no dividing factors involved.
Freud also sees that people in many cases act and do the same or similar things for the same reason, such as if they hate their father, they perhaps see themselves in the position of their father next to their mother, etc. The hate may be lying elsewhere for different reasons, this is perhaps one of the reasons Freud isn't followed as literally today as it was back when he was still alive. People have discovered other reasons for many of the things that they do as adults that connect back to when they were children, and not necessarily for the reasons Freud says they do.
Of Freud's theories on a persons childhood this stood out:
"Being in love with the one parent and hating the other are among the essential constituents of the stock of psychical impulses which is formed at that time and which is of such importance in determining the symptoms of the later neurosis (p.814, Freud)."
This rather bothers me in the fact that this is not the case with all people in their relationship with their parents. Yes, it is true that a child may prefer one parent over the other, and sometimes with good reason, but some children love both parents, just in different ways. This is the same with a person who may love two people, but it is just in different ways, depending on how each person treats them and might speak to them, any number of factors can feed into the reasons that create the different forms of love between them.

Works Cited
Leitch, Vincent B. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: Norton, 2001. Print.