Supportive evidence for Freud's theories

Question 1

What did Freud see as the root of these illnesses?

Answer 1

Repressed sexual feelings

Question 2

Little Hans

Answer 2

• had a phobia of being bitten by a horse, so avoided them
• Freud saw this as a symbol of inward conflict of sexual drive
• there was a guilt of his death wish against his father

Question 3

Daniel Schreber

Answer 3

• highly respected judge who suffered from a religious neurosis where a mystical God penetrated his body and gradually turned him into a woman.
• Freud believed that Schreber’s libido was directed towards father and not mother.
• thus, the repressed homosexual desires re-emerged as religious neurosis

Question 4

Redirection of guilt

Answer 4

Freud’s redirection of guilt theory was based on Darwin’s theory of the hordes we lived in.

Question 5

Instinctive desires

Answer 5

Darwin had argued that innate drives had developed because they aided the survival of our ancestors