Essays on Human Psyche.

An ancient sage once said that a man does not have a more interesting subject than the nature of the human being. This issue is one of the most important and interesting in the entire world philosophy. The man was described by Protagoras as the measure of everything – it was a basic philosophical and methodological principle of all humanitarian sciences of the Old World. Denis Diderot considered a man as the supreme worth, the only founder of all accomplishments in culture, a place from which everything has started and where must come back.

Shakespeare speaks through Hamlet:

“What a piece of work is a man? How noble in reason! How ...

For as long as people have created works of art to represent themselves and their conceptions of the world around them, the symbolism that the moon offers has provided it with a unique place among natural symbols. The moon earned its place thanks to the deep understanding of ancient peoples and their mythological use of the moon to explain natural and moral phenomena. In music, all of those ancient stories concerning the moon and its place in the collective human psyche are layered atop one another to create a dense, mysterious symbol defined best by the pieces composed to represent it. ...

Introduction

Sigmund Freud emphasizes the importance of the psychoanalytic value of dreams tremendously. He is of the opinion that dreams give a useful insight into the unconscious mind of a dreamer. His fascination with dreams shows in his keeping a diary during his childhood and he has used many of the ideas and dreams written on the pages of his diary while composing his most famous publication 'The Interpretation of Dreams'. Freud believes that dreams are an attempt to fulfill wishes by the id, especially those wishes which remain unfulfilled in the waking life due to various reasons. Because the longings and desires ...

The City

The State Physiology vs. Psyche Every academic or scientific discipline has its own pace and characteristics of development. Depending on the field this discipline belongs to; its development might be directly dependant on technological improvements or be only indirectly influenced by it. In other cases, development of the discipline might depend on the evolution of human society or general human perception of this discipline. On the other hand, there are such scientific disciplines which include all mentioned above aspects. Those disciplines are also characterized by diversity of approaches to their inner development and research of the target ...

William Faulkner is considered to be one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, through his implementation of the Southern gothic in his novels and short stories, through exploring the great Southern heritage, especially in his works whose action takes place in his imaginary Yoknapatawpha county, which was based on a place where he spent most of his childhood, called the Lafayette county. Faulkner was influenced greatly by his family origin and it shows in his imaginary setting in a most prolific manner, despite his drinking problems and extramarital affairs. The birth of William Cuthbert Falkner, it was only ...

Analyzing the Components of the Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality

Psychoanalytic theories cover the concept of the unconscious and the influence it has to behaviors and personality. Sigmund Freud, a neurologist was a specialist who dealt with nerve disorders. He focused his studies on the hidden instinctive behavior important in human psyche. During his day-to-day activities, he tackled problems from people who came to him for assistance including private personal lives, anxieties and personal problems. He found out that personality is highly controlled by forces, which came unnoticed. He therefore argued that individual personality consist of large portion of unawareness and unconsciousness (Hodzic et al., 2010). In his study, he ...