The trauma of the rape hinders Maya’s development with personal interaction. Her latency period is filled with silence and withdrawal. Her regression comes in the forms of her muteness to hide the traumatic outcome of her attacker. It is not until the reemergence of her grandmother that she is able to find her voice again through family and a friend support. The posttraumatic stress of her ordeal caused Angelou’s self-imposed silence and it was then that she developed her abilities of observation, very detailed memory, and a love for literature. Her love for literature gave Maya the eloquence that she is famously and award-winningly known for. She wrote “I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings” in detailing of her childhood experiences. Freudian theory would suggest that her early sexual experience was a result of her blatant sexual desires. The seduction theory of Freud’s suggested that repressed memory of the early childhood abuse or molestation was the result of hysterical or obsessional symptoms, with the inclusions of active sexual experience up to eight years or later. Freud believed that the sexual abuse memories were the results of imaginary fantasies. Other psychologist believed that Freud’s sexist orientation was the reason for his denial of sexual abuse. One can hypothesize, that her attacker’s unresolved sexual navigations through his psychosexual development was a cause of his attacks and he must have gone through some sexual problems or feelings of inferiority. The manifested content for Maya was her forced inability to
The trauma of the rape hinders Maya’s development with personal interaction. Her latency period is filled with silence and withdrawal. Her regression comes in the forms of her muteness to hide the traumatic outcome of her attacker. It is not until the reemergence of her grandmother that she is able to find her voice again through family and a friend support. The posttraumatic stress of her ordeal caused Angelou’s self-imposed silence and it was then that she developed her abilities of observation, very detailed memory, and a love for literature. Her love for literature gave Maya the eloquence that she is famously and award-winningly known for. She wrote “I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings” in detailing of her childhood experiences. Freudian theory would suggest that her early sexual experience was a result of her blatant sexual desires. The seduction theory of Freud’s suggested that repressed memory of the early childhood abuse or molestation was the result of hysterical or obsessional symptoms, with the inclusions of active sexual experience up to eight years or later. Freud believed that the sexual abuse memories were the results of imaginary fantasies. Other psychologist believed that Freud’s sexist orientation was the reason for his denial of sexual abuse. One can hypothesize, that her attacker’s unresolved sexual navigations through his psychosexual development was a cause of his attacks and he must have gone through some sexual problems or feelings of inferiority. The manifested content for Maya was her forced inability to