Freud's contribution to understadning he Gothic/Empire

Sigmund Freud was a Viennese physician. He was particularly interested in the psyclogical study of women in the upper class. Because these women were frequently suffering from hysteria and anxiety. This was because they felt trapped. They could do very little and were trapped at home. Their lives were boreing and unfulfilling. Freud wanting to fix that. So he would have them lie on a couch, him sitting behind their head, and talk about their problems.

Freud wanted to fix the problems that the empire were causing for the women. It was the empire's rules and regulations that made them this way. Freud was a part of that system however. Insead of  coming to the conclusion that these women were suffering because they were allowed zero freedom, he tried to treat them with hoses and morphine. So our story now takes a gothic turn. The women would be bound, held, tied, and sprayed down with a hose. Pretty much just absuing these women.

But Freud did make some very important discoveries nonetheless. He was a important figure in the psycological study of the empire and why women became to make the change toward gothicism.