In Freud's second essay he focused on sexuality in infancy and childhood. He explained how perversion was present even amoung the healthy and a path towards the sexual attitudes and norms began at a young age in ones childhood and not in the before believed puberty. Freud also believed that infants and young children expressed infantie sexual emotions in various ways such as sucking on ones thumb. He also claimed that sibling rivalry and ones retention of their feces was a form of expressing their infantile sexual emotions.
After reading this essay some of his theories made a bit of sense, however I believe children did not hold these sexual desires that he claimed they expressed in unusual ways. I believe most children sucked on their thumbs to relieve the itching of their incoming teeth and not to perform some sort of erotic act of whcih they do not even understand yet. I also believe that a sibling rivalry does not in any way relate to unusual sexual desires in need of expression since most siblings seem to one up each other with no hidden sexual tensions. Freud did attempt to explain his theories, however I believe his reasoning was a bit of a reach to explain his ideas.
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