Human Psychosexual Stages Through the Example of Ancient Greece Myths

As the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud had a serious fascination with Greek mythology, which influenced numerous psychoanalytic writings. Freud was not only interested in myths, but he was a desperate collector of antiquities: his collection included many works of art from antiquity from various countries. Freud once confided to his patient Sergei Pankeev, known as "the Wolf Man," that a psychoanalyst is like "an archaeologist on a dig, who must uncover the patient's psyche layer by layer before reaching the deepest, most valuable treasures." The purpose of this research paper is to draw attention to ancient doctrines and to familiarize ourselves with primary sources that will provide a deeper understanding of modern scientific literature and the process of human psychosexual development. One of the great ancient civilizations was Ancient Greece, the legacy of which is still alive today and continues to influence modern society. The main hypothesis we put forward in this thesis is that there are significant correspondences of situations from the life of modern people with the plots of ancient Greek myths in terms of psychosexual development of man and certain traumatic fixations during the passage of this or that stage. The theoretical part includes a review of the main stages of human psychosexual development in chronological sequence and a search for analogies among ancient Greek myths. The empirical part includes a number of client cases and an in-depth interview to confirm the hypothesis. Practical significance is the fact that in the work of a specialist the analysis of client cases when analyzed through the fantasy prism of myths and legends can open new facets of its problems.