Summary The case itself involves a man who is persecuted by neurosis and anxiety in his adult life. ... He was particularly frightened by images of wolves in a picture-book, walking upright like humans. ... The patient's animal phobia changed at some point in his development to what Freud calls an obsessional neurosis. ... The patient's parents married young and his mother was sick when he was a child. ... Some critics state that Freud often exhibits what could be called kettle logic in his case histories. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Discussion At First, when Poe wrote this short tale he called it "Life in Death" but later he changed its title to "The Oval Portrait" .As an overall picture or a summary for the plot of the story, the setting is in an abandoned chateau in Apennines, Italy. ... " (292) The book describes the painter, an eccentric obsessed with his art of painting and worships it more than anything even more than his beloved wife. ... Poe's mother Elizabeth Poe died when he was only a child. ... It must be a terrible blow for him not to have someone to support him in any possible...

• Word Count: 3098
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Part 1 – Summary The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is Sigmund Freud's sixteenth work published, and the title is quite fitting for the context of the book. ... Later, he revised his theory and claimed that these so-called memories were actually fantasies, and that the reported events had only been imagined. ...

• Word Count: 4202
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate