Sigmund Freud and his Technicolor Dreamcoat

Sigmund Freud. A name that has become synonymous with psychology and well known even to the everyday person. If you know anything more than his name, then you certainly know that he was obsessed with sex, or so it would seem.

He linked almost everything to sex. He claimed that "sexual desire is at the core of human emotion." Whether or not this is true, we can only guess. But what seems altogether more likely is that it was false; perhaps this was just how he saw himself, the person that he best understood, and he projected this onto others as well. Perhaps it was only Freud who was all about sex.

Anyhow, this week's lecture was definitely interesting; perhaps more so than some of the earlier ones. The name of Freud is well known, and Jung is familiar, but the name of Adler is a more abstract one. It is interesting that the three most famous psychiatrists/psychologists of this era came from the same place and the same group, rather than developing ideas independent of each other. While their ideas turned out differently, they all seemed to start from the same point.

For my creative act, I have applied my limited knowledge of the Bible to my more extensive knowledge of Google search, and, with my newfound information, created a short narrative where the Pharaoh has his dreams interpreted, not by Joseph, but by Sigmund Freud.

That night, the Pharaoh had a dream; a dream of seven lean cows that rose from the river and devoured seven fat cows. He dreamt also of seven withered ears of grain that devoured seven fat ears of corn. The Pharaoh asked his wise men to interpret the dream, but none could; but the Pharaoh heard had heard of a common man, named Freud, who called himself a Psychiatrist. Pharaoh sent for Freud and asked him to interpret the dream.

Freud told the Pharaoh that his dreams were signs of sexual repression; the corn represented the penis, being the same shape, and the varying sizes and thicknesses of the corncobs symbolized his own feelings of sexual inadequacy.

Freud also told the Pharaoh that the dreams of the cattle signified the strength of his id; it was a part of his unconscious mind that was running wild. He was having a difficult time repressing his urges to mindlessly slaughter cattle as an extension of his id.

Freud was thrown off of the pyramids. Pharaoh sent for Joseph.