Another View of the Roots of Freud's Theory

In the October 13th 2011 issue of "The New York Review of Books," Frederick C. Crews wrote a controversion review of books by Gerald Imber and Howard Markel, titled "Physician heal Thyself," wherein he speculates on the origns of Freud's theories. According to Alfred Adler, a contemporary of Sigmund Freud, earliest childhood recollections usually reveal the dynamic roots of the personality. Two of Freud's early collections may provide additional insight into his life and work, alongside Frederick Crew's cocaine hypothesis. Memory 1: At the age of 3 Freud still wet his bed. Reproached by his father, Freud said, "Don't worry papa, I will buy you a beautiful new red bed." Memory 2: At age 7 or 8, Freud recalls urinating deliberately in his parents' bedroom, and being reprimanded by his father, who said, "That boy will never amount to anything." Preoccupation with a urinary-sexual organ, aggression, compensatory ambition, and a father-son conflict could have transformed remembered early childhood experiences into an adult psychological theory.