she lost her father and on June 8 1290, she herself died at the age of twenty-four, probably from a miscarriage. Dante could never have claimed her hand in marriage; her belonged to an impoverished aristocratic family. As was the custom in those days, her hand had most likely been ‘promised’ in marriage at a very early age to a husband of suitable standing by legal contract between the two families, just as Gemma Donati’s hand had been to Dante in a formal document dated 1277 when Dante was…
Freud’s Theory of Psychosexual Development Freud’s theory of psychological development described how the personality developed over the course of childhood. While the theory is well-known in psychology, it is also one of the most controversial. Freud believed that personality developed through a series of childhood stages in which the pleasure-seeking energies of the id become focused on certain erogenous zones. This psychosexual energy – “libido” – was posited as one of the basic primal…