Along with Nietzsche and Marx, Sigmund Freud was the third of the founding fathers of the hermaneutics of suspicion that I covered at the very beginning of this series of blogs. If you haven't read that blog, or have simply forgotten those founding principles, I recommend re-reading before you continue. Psychoanalytical theory centers around the works of Sigmund Freud which was brought back into importance during the 60s, supplemented with post-structuralist ideas, by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan . Jacques Lacan Psychoanalysis works by exploring that gap between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. Freud claimed that the deepest desires and wishes of the conscious will regularly erupt, uninvited, into our lives. Perhaps the most famous of his ideas are written in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899). In the work, he sets out the theory of an Oedipal complex or Elektra complex that is essential to development. He claims that a child's desire for sexual...