A Psychoanalysis of Edward Gein Essay - 1266 Words

I have chosen to write my Case Study paper on Edward Gein from the Psychodynamic theoretical perspective. I believe that his behavior is a perfect case for the psychodynamic perspective because of the family dynamic in his home. These circumstances led to the actions that would become the inspiration for many books and movie characters because of the oddity and extreme nature of his human interactions. Possibly the first crime that Edward committed was killing his older brother. This has significance on the psychological level because Edward’s older brother began to disagree with their mother’s world perspective and I believe this was the motivation for this crime. He loved his mother very much possibly to the point of Parent-Child†¦show more content†¦He took the skin of these women’s bodies and tanned them making artifacts for around the house and even a suit of their skins that he could wear and pretend that he was a woman. This seems to be an ex treme and unique case of a type of Gender Identity Disorder. Because of his secluded lifestyle without a connection to the outside world these behaviors along with others went unnoticed until a woman disappeared from a hardware store where he was witnessed to have been at the same time as the disappearance. When the search lead to his farm not only did the police find that he did murder the victim, but that he had been mutilating scores of corpses. Her body was found hanging by the ankles with her head decapitated from her body. There was also another woman who appeared to be murdered by Gein, and the remains of many other bodies. Edward Gein has reached â€Å"legendary status† because of what he did to the bodies of the women he dug up from the cemetery. In his house among other items were; human organs in the refrigerator, a lampshade made of a human face, ten female heads with the tops sawn off, human skin chair covers, nine masks of human skin, bowls made from human skulls. (Ed gein, 2011) Among the disorders seen from a psychodynamic point of view I would include Necrophilia and Sexual Disorders NOS. It is hard to classify these behaviors into categories and there have probably been additional classification standards considered just