For the two short-answer questions, please consider the following scenario:
The decorated hero Colonel Scrooge K. Christmassurprise is experiencing some life difficulties and has approached you, an estimable psychotherapist (Dr. ), to assist him in his road to recovery. He describes his condition as follows:
o He occasionally loses feeling in his lips and tongue, rendering him unable to speak for minutes or hours at a time.
o He is overly concerned with neatness. He cannot stand for a single crumb to be on the floor nor a stack of magazines to be off-kilter. He spends large portions of days preserving order.
o He is concerned about his level of career success: whether he has accomplished enough, whether his best years of productivity have already passed.
o At times, he is too depressed to get out of bed, and whilst he lay there, he imagines himself locked in a tall tower, solitary, and powerless.
Imagine you are a hardcore Freudian thinker. Tell me why you think the Colonel is feeling this way. Feel free to speculate, but be sure to demonstrate your knowledge of psychoanalytic theory in the process.