last essay!

in this blog entry i plan to wrtie about the author we studied in class, Frank J. Sulloway. i know that we can write about whatever specific aspect of this authors writing that we want, and i have choosen to write about the way Sulloway is able to slip in such scientific names in to such a topic that may seem farfetched to some readers. Sulloway points this out to us in page 1 of his book Born To Rebel, where he states, Why do some people, like Darwin, accept new ideas, and yet otheres oppose the same innovation? In this simple sentence Sulloway uses the name of probably the greatest thinker pretaining to the theory of evolution, and he basically tells the reader that, yes we may not accept this idea of birth order. Sulloway is just like Charles Darwin, in fact, he very subtly compares himself to Darwin in this line i have choosen, maybe not directly, or even on purpose, but in my opinion he does, and i think the comparision is fare. i loved the sulloway reading this whole birth order thing actually blew my mind, at first it didnt, but then i started thinking and researching, and my god this is really all real, im sure the first thinkers presented to the idea of evolution by Darwin felt the same way.....

some other examples within Sulloway's writing is in his book, Freud: Biologist of the Mind. the title explains who and what the book is about. One of if not the most famous social scientist in history Sigmund Freud. So already we see Sulloway is citing, and writing whole books about some of the greatest social thinkers of all time, men who single handedly changed the way people of their own times think. i think sulloway is trying to tell us maybe he is as good, and is as good a thinker (as far as this new idea of birth order goes) as Darwin and Freud.

Sulloway has even become so popular to be named in books about other thinkers like Freud in a book entitled Freud and his critics, by Paul A. Robinson.


Frank J. Sulloway, Born to Rebel: Birth order, family dynamics, and creative lives, 1996, new york, pantheon books.
Frank J. Sulloway, Freud: Biologist of the Mind, Harvard university Press, 1992, Connecticut.
Robinson, Paul A. Freud and His Critics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.