How Does Sex Affect Sigmund Freud's Childhood
Sigmund Freud was a psychiatrist who analyzed the human mind, and the thoughts people have. He was the first to do this at an extensive level, and became very controversial in what he was saying. Freud was focused on sex, and how the human mind subconsciously always thinks about sex. Freud wrote a book called “Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood”. In this book, Freud analyzed Leonardo and how his childhood affected the man he became. Leonardo’s dad left him at a young age altering his life, and making him act in the wrong way because he thought it was the right way. His father affected his sexual orientation according to Freud. When it came to his career as a painter he treated his paintings as his kids. Leonardo wanted to find
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He struggled to find someone that could be that for him because he was sexually confused, and struggled to connect with those father figures. At one point, he finds someone that could be his father figure, “Just as he modelled himself on his father in the outward conduct of his life, so too he passed through a period of masculine creative power and artistic productiveness in Milan, where a kindly fate enabled him to find a father-substitute in the duke Lodovico Moro” (Freud, p. 95). He struggles because of the confusion his father caused him at such a young age. Leonardo tried throughout his life to find someone to take his place, but would always push that person away. In this sense though as well he is constantly trying to prove that he is a better man than his father. Freud says, “His father had been a great gentlemen to the poor peasant girl, and the son, therefore, never ceased to feel the spur to play the great gentlemen as well, the urge ‘to out-herod Herod’ to show his father what a great gentlemen really looks like” (Freud, p. 81). He wanted to prove that even without his dad in his life he could still amount to be something amazing. Leonardo wanted to be better than his dad, because he viewed his dad as a failure according to Freud. He wanted to show that his father would not define who he became and what kind of person he would
He struggled to find someone that could be that for him because he was sexually confused, and struggled to connect with those father figures. At one point, he finds someone that could be his father figure, “Just as he modelled himself on his father in the outward conduct of his life, so too he passed through a period of masculine creative power and artistic productiveness in Milan, where a kindly fate enabled him to find a father-substitute in the duke Lodovico Moro” (Freud, p. 95). He struggles because of the confusion his father caused him at such a young age. Leonardo tried throughout his life to find someone to take his place, but would always push that person away. In this sense though as well he is constantly trying to prove that he is a better man than his father. Freud says, “His father had been a great gentlemen to the poor peasant girl, and the son, therefore, never ceased to feel the spur to play the great gentlemen as well, the urge ‘to out-herod Herod’ to show his father what a great gentlemen really looks like” (Freud, p. 81). He wanted to prove that even without his dad in his life he could still amount to be something amazing. Leonardo wanted to be better than his dad, because he viewed his dad as a failure according to Freud. He wanted to show that his father would not define who he became and what kind of person he would