Psychoanalytic Understanding of Ludwig von Beethoven's Troublesome Childhood

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Wild analysis of Ludwig von Beethoven
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Introduction
The paper analyses the psychoanalytic understanding of the life of Ludwig von Beethoven on his
troublesome at childhood. The discussion explains the life of Beethoven from childhood until he
became a famous musician (Allen, 2017). Also, the essay accounts for the Oedipus complex and
tries to demonstrate the defense mechanism that was developed by the Ludwig von Beethoven.
Discussion
Generally, different authors have indicated that Ludwig was born on December 16, 1770, in the
city of Bonn in the electorate of Cologne which nowadays referred to as the Holy Roman
Empire. He was later baptized on December 17, 1770, although no certain date of birth is
indicated. During this time children were baptized after 24 hours but most of the times Ludwig
insisted that he was born two years later in 1772 (Ballan, 2017). Most of the times when Ludwig
was presented with official papers he could argue that he was not born in 1770.
Beethoven had family members whereby he had two brothers who survived to adulthood. He had
Caspar who was born in 1774 and Johann who was born in 1776. Different authors argue that
Beethoven had a mother known as the Maria Magdalena van Beethoven who is described as a
genteel, moralistic woman and also a slender. His father was known as the Johann van
Beethoven and he was known for his alcoholism. Beethoven's father and his grandfather were
great musicians but his father was known for alcoholism rather than the music capabilities
(Belevska, 2018). After a period of six years, Beethoven's father started teaching him how to
compose music and how to use a musical instrument to play music. During this time Beethoven
experienced his father's brutality who could teach him on a regular basis whenever he used to
make a mistake when playing the clavier and singing songs provided by his father. In his lifetime

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as a child, Beethoven experienced torture from his father (De Masi, 2018). On a daily basis
Beethoven could be flogged and locked in a room and then deprived asleep for an extra hour of
practice whenever he made a mistake singing the song. Beethoven tolerated for a quite long time
until he captured everything. Most of the times Beethoven could attend music learning sessions
nearby his town and this helped him to learn the clavier and the violin. Despite the brutality he
was getting from his father, Beethoven worked hard enough and later on, he emerged to be the
most talented musician in the country. Different authors have tried to explain how Beethoven
was a prodigiously talented individual who could compose creative songs that attracted the
audiences whenever he entered the stage in many concerts. His songs were full of imagination
and creative concepts which were so beautiful since they focused to describe the normal virtues
experienced by the society at that time. His father organized for a number of concerts which
proved that Beethoven was a talented musician (De Masi, 2018). The first concert attended by
Beethoven was the Wolfgang Mozart which was organized by his father. Beethoven's father
called his a son a musician of six years although at that time he was 7 years old. Beethoven
presented well and played impressively but at this time he did not get much support from the
audience. After this event, Beethoven's father decided to take his son to the Latin grade school
which was known as the Tirocinium (Simonton, 2015). Beethoven's life in school was not so
good. Authors argue that Beethoven struggled with complex sums and at the same time he used
to struggle with spelling in his entire life. The good thing to Beethoven was that even though he
used to struggle with the spelling mistakes in school, he revealed that he could not make any
spelling mistake when he was composing his songs. This shows how the guy was talented and a
number of authors have exaggerated his prowess by saying that "music comes more readily than
a word." (Fonagy, Target & Gergely, 2015). At the age of 11 years old, Beethoven withdrew