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Self-Analysis In order to define who I am, it he

In order to define who I am, it helps me to tell the story of my life and think about myself in the terms of experts in psychology. I have always been interested in the ideas of Sigmund Freud and decided to incorporate some of his theories about women with my own understandings of myself.

My parents are first generation immigrants, and I am their first child. I was born in 1970, and my brother was born four years later. We have spent our entire lives in Los Angeles, attending the public schools here. My father has his own business and my mother stays at home, spending most of her time with church work as well as being a traditional housewife and mother.

My childhood was uneventful. Most of my memories are of spending time with my mother while she did her various chores. My dad was always busy with his work, and it seemed to me from my child-like perspective that he was often worried. He came home late each day, tired, sometimes short-tempered. I wonder in retrospect if he was concerned about his ability to "make it" in this country. My mother did not really know what to do to assist him, other than just keep a nice house and try to shelter my father from the mundane day-to-day details of living. It seemed that our home atmosphere was dark and oppressive.

I did have fun with children in the neighborhood. Although I was rather shy, even as a child, the other children liked me and wished to play together. For whatever reason, my parents discouraged me from having other children over to our house to visit or play, so I felt rather isolated in a social sense. It seemed that my parents were always worried that something would happen to me, and I may have absorbed some of their fears during those formative years.

The birth of my brother was annoying to me. Not only was there another person now to share the already scant attention of my father, but it became apparent rather quickly that in our household male children ...

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