Summary & Response Reflection

Lecture 1: Doctors Attitude Towards Hysterical Patients

In the summary response essay, we were supposed to demonstrate our understanding of Freud’s lecture 1 and the “The Yellow Wallpaper”. We were also supposed to  summarize and respond to how Freud’s concepts were used throughout the story. In addition, I had to summarize what Freud said in lecture 1 about the attitude of most doctors towards hysterical patients and how it was shown in “the yellow wallpaper”. The genre of “The Yellow Wallpaper” is a short  fiction story that shows a great example based on Freud’s lecture . I believe this essay was a little challenging to me because of how dense the readings were. There was always a deeper meaning into Freud’s lecture where I had to keep revising my work to make sure I understood everything to the best of my ability. 

I believe that I had a clear purpose for why I wrote the essay based on my thesis. The thesis was shown throughout the essay based on the evidence that I had and analysis of my evidence. Even though I was struggling a little, I repeatedly kept revising my work and writing notes on Freud’s lecture and comparing it to “The Yellow Wallpaper”. One way I can enhance my understanding of such a difficult reading next time or anytime  is by writing a little summary for each paragraph in my notes. Another one of my strengths when writing this essay was my clear thesis and evidence to back up this thesis.

One of my weaknesses that I feel that can be improved  to better my writing is my analysis. My analysis could have definitely been longer and overall written better. I’ve always struggled with my analysis and I can see my impovents but I know I can definitely improve my analysis.

Overall, I definitely believe that I did a good job on this essay but there is still room for improvement. The assignment was to help us better understand freud’s concept and how to summarize a text without actually writing a summary  of the lectures/ short or any type of writing.