Analysis Of Freud's Three Essays On The Theory Of Sexuality

Freud has always been one of my favorite theorist, He was never afraid to think outside the box and propose something unimaginable. Freud, as a psychosexual analyst had a very unique way of looking at humans and their actions. According to Freud 's theories, everyone 's actions were driven by a sexual desire, whether it was suppressed or not. While Freud did focus a lot on the sexual drive behind people 's actions, his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality focused on sexual aberrations rather than normality. The essays covered a wide spectrum of topics including: sexual object, sexual aim, and many perversions.
The perversions Freud covered in his essays include: inversion, fetishism, sadism and masochism, anal intercourse, use of the oral mucous membranes and pedophilia. Each perversion was intensely explored and explained. Freud 's sole purpose of his three essays was to bring light to the different aberrations that exist and deem them as normal or an actual aberration. While many of the perversions mentioned in the essay were written off as either an aberration or a perversion at the time the essays were written, people’s views on sexuality have changed tremendously since then. Many of the acts that were viewed as a perversion during Freud’s time are now known as something that is normalized and praised to certain extents.
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It seems very ludicrous that Freud would normalize the use of a child as a sexual object being that he knows the damage adults suffer from if they 've endured sexual trauma as a child. I agree with some of Freud’s perversions, however, I find them to be slightly ridiculous. There is no logical explanation for why anal intercourse or use of the oral mucus membrane to be seen as more of a perversion than pedophilia. After reading some of Freud’s views of perversions, I found myself questioning his entire psychosexual