Adam and Eve, and the Fall - as interpreted by Freud
The story of the Oedipal Conflict, as narrated by Freud, is in many ways a psychological story or myth of origins. The Freudian tale attempts to explain the history of conflict in human sexual relations. Why has human nature, specifically human sexual nature, resulted in so much unhappiness rather than pleasure? Freud theorized that it was because, even from the cradle, sexual conflict is the result of trauma and anger, namely the young boy's traumatic realization that he cannot sexually enjoy his mother, like his father. A secondary plot, in the form of the Electra complex of penis envy relates a young girl's traumatic realization that she cannot possess her mother the way her father possesses her mother because she lacks a penis. Thus it is only fitting to use Freud's tale of conflict and sexual origins to the Bible's tale of the Fall of Adam and Eve. The tale of the Fall of Man from Genesis also purports to explain the unhappiness, pain, and anxiety that has frequently attached itself to human sexual desire, as well the reasons for the origin of human sexuality at the beginning of time.Briefly, to sum up the story of the Fall of Man, God created Adam, "formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nos
Sexual desire remains so even today, ever since after God "drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life. They had no knowledge of their existence as sexual beings, and human life had no conflicts or tensions. Eve's disobedience and desire to have a phallus is reflected in her embrace of the serpent's word, which also allows her to reject the divine figure of the father that formed her without a penis. Perhaps the main psychological theme of the story of the Biblical fall is not the dangers of disobedience, because surely God should have known that Adam and Eve would be disobedient, when he told them not to eat the apple, just as a parent tells a child not to eat from the cookie jar. Once they are aware, other people will intrude in the form of the children they will give birth to after they have acknowledged their sexuality. The earth, as it relates to Eve as a motherly figure of fruitfulness, becomes the ideal mother, the phallic and nurturing mother that suckles the infant with its milk and fulfills all of its needs four nourishment and stimulation and power. In terms of human motivation, both creation stories parallel one another. According to Freud, the young girl hates her mother after realizing that she has not been born with a penis, and subconsciously blames her mother for this apparent maiming. However, although they are not openly sexual until the end of the tale, it is possible to see Adam and Eve as being created in a state of polymorphous perversity, entering into a kind of infantile sexual state, or still socially unformed sexuality in the Garden, where their main sexual objects are Oedipal rather than real, physical objects. The ancient Greek Oedipal myth is likewise structured upon a young person's attempt to avoid the dictates of the divine powers, the powers that created and control him. The serpent, a tempting rather than a devilish figure encouraged Eve to eat of the fruit of the tree. Every infant, after losing the breast, thus experiences his or her own kind of fall from grace, as seen in Freud's terms. (This is reminiscent of how in Freud's story; the male sexual coming to being was the main focus of the tale, with the women's parallel journey into penis envy from desire for the mother, is a fairly secondary component) The two, first humans dwelled in blissful ignorance and paradise, and the only commandment they had to obey was not to eat of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge in the garden. The infant's egotistical desire for control or mastery was satisfied over its control or ability to possess the breast. Then, later, with socialization, sexual drive defined itself around an object, first the mother, before becoming repressed and then reawakened with puberty.
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