Sigmund Freud Rhetorical Analysis

Sigmund Freud is one of the most influential psychologist of all times; In fact, he is referred to as the “father of psychology” because of his thought-provoking ideas that drove forward several studies in the field psychology leading to the discovery of potential insight on human behavior. Freud believes that there is an inner mental activity out of our control which contains our deepest thoughts and most sincere intentions. In this particular chapter of his work he talks about how the forgetting of foreign words is connected to our thoughts and how we can have things within our minds without being aware of their existence. Freud talks about a guy who was delivering a speech during which the young male failed to remember a Latin word that he wanted to use in order to culminate his speech in a unique way. Freud helped him remember the Latin word “Aliquis” which means someone, anyone, anything, in any respect. Consequently, they both started a conversation trying to decipher why he forgot that specific word. Freud began asking several question in regards to …show more content…
His purpose was to illustrate that every behavior has a meaning or reason behind it. For instance, he tried to explain how a little male infant builds disdain upon his father because his father takes attention away from him. In other words, a little infant is jealous because his father is somehow hampering him from spending more time with his mother. Freud claims that this happened without the young male being aware of it, tying back to the idea of the unconscious mind that we have unconscious thoughts that are out of our hands, which is one of the most prevalent ideas in Freud’s repertory of arguments, but it also shows how the forgetting of a word can have a correlation with thoughts that seem very abstract or unrelated to the word