Hello, My name is Marclysa Theagene and I’m a freshman at CCNY. This is a portfolio I put together showing my progress of the past couple of weeks during my first semester at the school. While showing my progress as a writer, I also put some the strategies and self reflections of what I did and how I can improve as a writer. During the first semester with Professor Elizabeth Von Uhl, and Professor Alyssa Yankwitt. During our lectures we spoke about the Austrian neurologist, Sigmund Freud and his psychoanalytic theory. Some of the major principles of psychoanalysis include the significance of the unconscious, hysteria, the idea of hypnosis, early sexual development, repression, dreams, death and life drives, and transference. We further analyzed his concepts while looking at several short stories by other highly recognized authors such as James Baldwin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman etc…