Summary and Response Reflection
This was my first time writing a summary and response essay and it was a pleasant experience. I learned how to cite properly, how to integrate quotes into a sentence, and the complexity of genre. More importantly, I was genuinely intrigued by Freud’s lectures on psychoanalysis. When someone reads my essay, I hope they’re educated on how doctors had different approaches to treating patients. I engaged with Freud’s first lecture and was fascinated by psychoanalysis; I hope my paper gives some insight into the lecture. Anyone reading my paper will comprehend the two different approaches to treating an illness, one from Dr. Breuer and one from John.
My essay on Freud’s attitude towards doctors has an exegetic genre. I explained Freud’s criticism of doctors and how his view was reflected in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The readers can understand Freud’s belief of the doctors improperly handling patients. Freud wanted doctors to take mental health seriously, and Dr. Breuer was one of them. This essay is for the readers to soak in information about Freud’s thoughts. You get to learn that doctors had no sympathy for patients that didn’t have a physical sickness. I strived to emphasize how important Freud thought mental health was. Furthermore, the tone set in my paper was formal, it was thorough and direct. I try to help the readers understand Freud’s disapproval of how doctors approached patients back then. I used citations from Freud’s first lecture and “The Yellow Wallpaper” so readers are motivated to read these stories and understand the connection between these two. They can understand the importance of mental health.
The audience I would prefer overall is anyone who would like to be informed on how doctors treated patients. I want the readers to engage and be like “ Oh so Freud does have a point about these doctors”. Additionally, I believe I answered the prompt thoroughly, and that the readers can grasp Freud’s attitude towards doctors back then. I didn’t mention exactly where all of this was taking place but I did mention how it was in the past tense back when doctors had no idea how important mental health was. Doctors now take all patients seriously because it is their duty and they don’t neglect patients because there is no physical problem so you can basically get a gist of how long ago this took place. Overall, I had a lot of drafts because it was hard not summarizing when the prompt asks you to inform the readers. Also making sure it was concise and not too repetitive over and over again was a good process because that’s a good habit to get used to. Understanding a rhetorical situation was helpful because it help set the tone for my essay. One thing I do need to improve on is synthesizing but I believe as I progress and write more essays, it will become easier.
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