Essays on Psychoanalysis

Ahmed, Sofe (2012). Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory Oedipus complex: A critical study with reference to D. H. Lawrence’s “Sons and Lovers”, Internal journal of English and literature Vol. 3(3), pp. 60-70.

Summary Annotation

One of the most often argued critical and debatable questions of modern psychology and literature is definitely Sigmund Freud and his Oedipus complex. Introducing his theory in the field of modern psychology and literature trend, Freud initiated the confrontation of opinions. However, there exist a lot of other valuators, according to which, Freud’s concept of Oedipus complex should be treated with great respect. Outstanding ...

The psychoanalytic theory of personality was developed by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century, and has developed since then into a mode of investigation that uses the interactions between the conscious and unconscious mind as a framework to determine the source of psychological attributes and problems (Lazarus et al., 2014). In essence, this theory of personality dictates that human behavior is often irrational and governed by subconscious forces that cannot be strictly controlled. By investigating these impulses and the motivations behind them, it is possible to better understand ourselves and address our potential issues. The way psychoanalysis is ...

Freud and his followers came up with an unconscious mind account. This serves a significant part in explaining psychoanalysis. There was the division of the mind by Freud into a conscious mind, also known as the ego as well as the unconscious mind. Later, it was demarcated into the id (Instincts and ego) and conscience (superego).According to the theory of Freud, unconscious refers to the processes in the mind whereby individuals create an image of themselves being unaware. Freud came up with a proposal of the hierarchical and vertical architecture of the human consciousness, the preconscious, conscious and ...

The philosophical basis for the humanistic approach was phenomenology. According to this philosophical perspective, subjective perceptions, feelings, cognitions, experience are more important than objective facts. For example, two people can see the same movie but every person will have a unique subjective perception of this movie. Therefore, humanistic psychologists also believed that every person`s experience is unique and that an individual`s psychology cannot be studied by objective, scientific method such as tests. Also, because of phenomenological ideas humanists believe that one of the main tasks of a therapy is to explore the subjective experiences of a client ( ...

(Author Name) (Course Name/Number) The Tavistock Model was originally developed at the Tavistock Clinic in London around the onset of the First World War It started as a classroom experiment for students studying infants, but soon became an accepted practice throughout the social science field as a means of observing infants, children, and adults. The model itself has deep roots in Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory and was developed as a collaboration between child psychoanalyst Esther Bick and Dr. John Bowlby. Because the concentration started as a means of observing the stages of emotional and mental development in children, ...

Throughout the play ‘Odepus the King', reader feels that there were sufficient indicators from which Oedipus should have predicted way before time that some truth was being concealed from him (Zachrisson and Anders 313). From messages expressed metaphorically to messages almost certainly meant to convey the understanding that some truth was awaiting him, instances of indicative expressions dominate the play. From the onset, the play is characterised by views and opposing views over just how aggressively Oedipus should pursue the truth regarding his true parentage and as to who was the murderer behind the death of King Laius (Priel ...

Individual Reaction to the Advent of Artificial Intelligence

Introduction Through advancements in science and technology, human beings have managed to create machines that work more or less in the same way as the human brain, performing tasks like mathematical calculations and language translations. This is what has come to be known as Artificial intelligence (AI) which is the kind of intelligence that machines exhibit when certain manipulations and programming is done to them. Some of these machines like the IBM computer, Watson, are capable of mimicking or performing certain cognitive functions that are normally associated with the human brain only. Artificial intelligence research thus deals with problems ...

The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Society by S. Freud

Besides the fact that Sigmund Freud is the founder of psychoanalysis and many other important psychological theories, this great psychoanalyst also had his own unique views on society and the processes within it. Most of his theories related to such concepts as "libido", "groups", and "crowd" form rather a strange and ambiguous interpretation of society. Freud hardly distinguished the individual from the context of the whole society and divided the society itself into the crowd, or the groups, which is compared with the primitive horde. This radical disregard for the human qualities of the individual, as a separate and ...

In his article Ecrits, Jacques Lacan discusses the interdependent relationship between the subject of a psychoanalysis as well as the psychoanalyst himself. The premise of the article is to determine what the most effective course of treatment is whenever a psychologist is treating a patient suffering from a mental or nervous system disorder . In the introduction, the question of the expert providing the treatment keeping himself disconnected from the patient is explored. Lacan suggests that remaining impartial and maintaining a neutral perspective is crucial in ensuring that the most effective treatment. The remainder of the article sets out the ...

Psychopathologies, also known as psychological disorders have become a growing concern in the society. The more modernized the world becomes, the greater the need of illuminating just how necessary it is to try to understand the roots of mental illness and situations that may cause mental disturbance. The media has played a great role in trying to bring out case studies in form of documentaries, television series, movies and even books and stories. However, there is still much more to be done in terms of creating awareness when it comes to these mental diseases, which by the way can ...

I would like to see the movie "The Great Gatsby", filmed in 1974 by the director named Jack Clayton from the standpoint of psychoanalysis ("The Great Gatsby (1974)"). I will consider the film through the prism of the basic tenets of the theory, developed by the Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. I will make out a few key points that define psychoanalysis as a theory and show how these postulates are related to the main character of the book by Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Jack Clayton’s film, Jay Gatsby. Immediately, it should be noted that this film is not ...

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Paper Critique

The classmate’s project presented has been converted into a very intelligent video that presents information into a very captive format from a classroom scenario. The project is named as “The Authentic use of Laptops in Classrooms”. The project has two parts one is a video uploaded to YouTube and another is a Microsoft power point presentation consisting of nine slides. The YouTube video shows that in a classroom where four students are studying, three are distracted by technology while only one is taking notes in a ...

Abstract

Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis, has made lasting contributions in the field of psychology because of his theory on psychosexual and personality development. His unorthodox psychological techniques and theory were influenced by his forerunners and then, after his lifetime, left a lasting impact about how nurture explains human consciousness and behavior, especially, on mental illnesses. His three aspect of the mind: superego, ego, and id, are apt psychodynamic explanations about the workings of the mind and human behavior among his avid followers of psychoanalysts. Further, his stages of psychosexual development: pre-genital, oral, etc., not to mention Oedipus and ...

Othello, the 1603 masterpiece of the master playwright William Shakespeare is more psychological than artistic, derived from Donald Metzer’s “Concerning the Stupidity of Evil”. Dr. Johnson says that his [Shakespeare’s] drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions (Johnson. p. 14). Shakespeare portrayed life ...

Abstract

Counseling psychology defines a specialty in psychology within the professional category that emphasizes on the need to facilitate both personal and interpersonal functioning around the entire life. The specialty borrows concepts from, social, vocational, educational, emotional, health-associated, developmental, and organizational issues. The goals of counseling psychology include a diverse range of closely attached practices that assist persons in improving their welfare, lessen issues, resolve crises and increase the capability of persons to improve their lives. The association of this area of specialization draws more attention from normal development subjects and issues linked with physical, emotional and mental issues. Counseling ...

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

Quite often, people experience anxiety when faced with a difficult situation, and the anxiety ends once the situation is resolved. Occasional anxiety is a common phenomenon that people face especially before undertaking tasks for which they have little confidence in accomplishing. Besides, whenever confronted with the need to make important decisions, people tend to experience anxiety over the possible consequences of such decisions. In general, anxiety occurs when one is facing a difficult situation, has to make a difficult decision, or is about to carry out a task that one has no confidence in accomplishing successfully. In all these ...

While most people are familiar with a number of leading theorists in psychoanalysis, particularly Sigmund Freud, and possibly Adler and Jung, most people would not be familiar with Karen Horney, considered to be the “fist psychoanalytic feminist” (Hergenhahn & Henley 525). Horney disagreed with several concepts introduced by Freud, especially his focus on unconscious sexual motivation and the division of the self into 3 parts: id, ego, and superego. She believed that social experiences had a greater influence on the creation of self. During the Depression, she found that her clients’ problems were caused by unemployment and the inability to ...

Freud's Account of Human Sexuality and Human Desire

Basically, psychoanalysis and Freud's theories are associated with his theory of sexuality, considering that he regarded all aspects of human life (i.e. beginning with a simple mental disorder up to religious doctrines), as the sexual problems. This comic effect arises also because the question of what Freud used to call sexuality remains outside the attention. If one examines the issue of human sexuality in the works of Freud in detail, the work of sensual sphere and sphere of desires becomes evident. The phenomenon of Freud, the author of the doctrine of psychoanalysis, is that he was the first to ...

The issue of feminism in the film industry is a common topic for controversial discussions. Many writers are more popular than others because of the ways in which feminism surfaces as the driving force behind their presentations. Feminism can be classified as a social movement that has created an enormous impact on culture of film, the theories of films and the critical reviews of films. A number of films represent the myths that reveal ideas on women and their femininity. In addition, there are films that speak to men and their masculinity. The issues of representation and spectatorship form ...

Synopsis

Franny and Zoey were written as two different stories, the first being a short story about Franny, a college student dissatisfied with the pretentious American society as epitomized by her boyfriend, Lane. He even pretends he does not remember the letter he was just reading before the train arrived. The events of the story take place at a French restaurant where Lane takes Franny during their date, and the conversation that ensues is indicative of just how the two are different. Lane talks incessantly about his school work and assumes that Franny does not understand some of the words ...

Introduction

The paper critically analyzes the various ideas put together by Freud on what essentially classifies and outlines the personality and nature of men and women and accordingly the relations between them (Engler and Barbara 23). The paper also discusses how the characteristics exhibited at the diverse levels of social utilitarian engagements bringing out the relation to Freud’s view of the potential between the men and women independently as well as in social context. The paper also examines the Freud’s views in light of Marx’s discussion of the relation between the potential of men and women. In ...

The book titled The Color of Water by James McBride is an autobiographical affair which describes the life and happenings of the author’s mother, Ruth. The book is also a tribute to Ruth’s life and all that she goes through in the course of life. Ruth is presented as a strong woman with great ambition and strength. The book is not only representative of her journey and struggles; it is also her development as a person, a Christian, and a woman during the course of her life. She is the central figure in the novel and her ...

Early psychoanalytic critiques of literary works were concentrated on examining works of literature to gain insights into the author’s personal influences on his work. Such critiques therefore remained within the traditional field of psychoanalysis. For instance, Ben Karpman wrote that, “Gulliver's Travels furnish abundant evidence of the neurotic make-up of the author and discloses the presence in him of a number of perverse trends indicative of fixation at the anal-sadistic stage of libidinal development (Karpman 29).” However, critics like Ernest Jones came out of this traditional approach to analyze the text and not the author, such as he ...

Early psychoanalytic critiques of literary works were concentrated on examining works of literature to gain insights into the author’s personal influences on his work and therefore these critiques remained within the traditional field of psychoanalysis. For instance, Ben Karpman wrote that, “Gulliver's Travels furnishes abundant evidence of the neurotic make up of the author and discloses the presence in him of a number of perverse trends indicative of fixation at the anal-sadistic stage of libidinal development (Karpman 29).” However critics like Ernest Jones came out of this traditional approach to analyze the text and not the author, such ...

The Yellow Wall Paper is a short story written by an American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman It was first published in January 1892 in the New England Magazine and considered as an important example of the early feminist literature. In order to analyze the work of the psychoanalytic school of criticism viewpoint we should refer to the author's life and personality, that is important for psychoanalytic research. She was born on the 3 July 1860, in Hartford, Connecticut. Her childhood was not easy because her father gave up the family and Charlotte's mother had to grow up her two ...

Psychology is a discipline studying human behavior and mental processes. It is a scientific study which includes diversity of perspectives and approaches. When psychology appeared there were two main theoretical perspectives such as functionalism developed by William James and structuralism discovered by Wilhelm Wundt. Functionalism was focused on exploring human behavior, mental processes and its cause. This very approach was the one which made an important contribution to contemporary psychology. In 1879 Wundt opened his laboratory devoted to psychology, it is considered that he also separated psychology from philosophy. Nowadays there are several main perspectives in psychology which search ...

Repression is a term that is usually used by psychoanalysts to refer to suppression or avoidance of psychologically painful incidences. Despite its frequent use, psychoanalysts, as well as nonpsychoanalysts, use the term in reference to the various context that involves psychogenic amnesia or traumatic memory loss. In this paper, the use of the term by Sigmund Freud and Jennifer Freyd is examined to illustrate similarities as well as the differences in the utilization of the term. Freud uses repression in the illustration of psychoanalysis technique of his patients who presented neurological pathology after psychologically traumatizing events. Usually, Freud cases ...

Post University

Sigmund Freud is a famous Austrian founder of psychoanalysis who created a modern approach to psychotherapy based on the deep investigation of human psyche and observation of the individual patient's neuroses, childhood psychological trauma and blocks. Freud was not only a notable psychiatrist who consulted numerous members of the European nobility and business world, but also a person who contributed to the development of the Western European philosophy, psychology and social science (Sharf, 1996, p. 29). It is his position at the intersection of traditional psychotherapy and humanities that made his contribution so influential among his contemporaries and future ...

Theory Application

Introduction: In introducing the main assumptions and tenets of both psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral theory it is important to account for the underlying principles that each is built upon. In order to contrast and compare these basic principles and how they focus on the underlying changes that are evident in the clients there is a need to develop an effective method for considering the cases that are available. The challenge in doing so is indicated by the underlying tenets of each theory. In regards to psychoanalytic theory, there is a need to understand the unconscious mental processes that occur. In ...

Response to readings

The uncanny by Sigmund Freud is an article that tries to bring together two concepts; psychoanalysis and literary criticism. The first idea in the uncanny is the conceptualization of "Uncanny". Freud argues that uncanny as a concept refers to something that appears to be both fearful and frightening. He goes on to plot the development of “Uncanny”, and points out that everything starts out as being familiar and then develops into being uncanny. “That what is ‘uncanny’ is frightening because it is not known and familiar” (Freud 2). This is borrowed from the two German words, Heimlich and unheimlich. ...

Currently, the profession of a psychiatrist is one of the most important. An own plane of intelligence conditions its importance and seriousness. Today, the modern world makes a person develop much faster than it used to five to ten years ago. A vast amount of information can cause a variety of mental disorders, and a person may not even know about the disorders for many years. Thus, these disturbances will have an adverse impact on an individual's life. The profession of psychiatrist requires serious training because knowledgeable people can transform people’s lives. The occupation of a psychiatrist is ...

The twentieth century was as unique and fertile for literary criticism as it was for literature. The common taste saw a general crumbling of moralistic attitudes and a freer tendency towards experimentation. The high moral ground assumed by the Arnoldian school faded into the background, and also, literature ceased to be regarded as a sublimation of genius of the noblest kind. In its place it came to be regarded as an act of neurotic obsession driven by inscrutable impulses. This debasement of literature must have shocked many high priests of classicism and conservatism, but for many it was a ...

Undoubtedly, the profession of psychiatrist is one of the most important to date. Its importance and seriousness are conditioned by a personal plane of intelligence. Today, the modern world makes a person develop much faster than it used to even 5-10 years ago. A huge amount of information can cause a variety of mental disorders, and a person may not even know about them for many years. Thus, these disturbances will have a negative impact on an individual's life. The profession of psychiatrist requires serious training, because good people are able to greatly change people's lives. Psychiatrists' Wages generally ...

The literature review of this study is a comprehensive review of Psychodynamic therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The literature will involve empirical support, description of the available treatment, theoretical aspects as well as historical perspectives of these therapies. The research concurs with the conclusion that CBT is an adequate treatment modality for minimizing symptoms and boosting functional results among the patients with psychodynamic therapy. Thus, makes it a vital framework for clinicians working with clients with psychodynamic symptomology. The cognitive behavioral theory was developed by Aaron Beck in 1960. Currently, this theory is one of the most frequently used ...

I believe that a person is born into a context; race, sex, family, country. The interplay between personal traits and external circumstances makes a person the way they are. The same person born to a different family or a different culture would suffer from different kinds of hardship or distress.

Optimal Functioning

In my eyes, optimal mental health does not necessarily mean happiness at all times; optimal mental health, in my view, is flexibility and the ability to look at one's thoughts and feelings, examine their viability and how they may be affected by factors such as thought patterns, bias and faulty perceptions.

Mental Health Problems

I believe ...

Revealing both the best and worst aspects of humanity, the Renaissance was characterized by extraordinary human achievements, a heightened interest in human potential and, paradoxically, by superstition, witch-hunting, exorcism and torture. The humanism of Renaissance had four main themes: the belief in the individual’s potential, a tendency to view religion as being more personal rather than institutionalized, an increased interest in the classics, a rejection of Aristotelian philosophy in order to develop a more scientific attitude. As the ecclesiastical power started to deteriorate, the pressure of having to fit scientific inquiry with Christian dogma decreased, making inquiry steadily more objective. Copernicus ...

How does the human conscious and unconscious mind and the external bio-social forces adapt in the process of development? What then is the role and significance of psychoanalysis? Researchers in the field of neuroscience have made great findings on the effect of the biopsychosocial perspective on child development. They have already accentuated on the fact that the interaction of infants with their neurobiological predisposition and interpersonal social and environmental experiences influences the development of the psyche, a concept earlier on stated by Freud in his ‘Project for Scientific Psychology’ (Sasso 2009). The development of consciousness is evidently a complex process ...

In the Context of human and personality development, the role of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic theories cannot be underrated. The psychoanalytic theory seeks to explain the personality of an individual by analyzing the various psychosexual stages involved during their personal development. Central to the theories of psychoanalytic are the efforts of Sigmund Fred who proposed that people mostly operates from three distinct states of being: the id which seeks self-gratification; the superego which seeks to do what is morally right; and the ego, the rational mediator between id and the superego (Fred, 2011). These theories are vital in defining the ...

Affiliated School

Identify the major schools of thought in psychology and examine their major underlying assumptions.

Psychology is founded on the premise of schools of thought structuralism and functionalism. These two schools were the first and are based on introspection and breaking down of mental processes. Behaviourism is yet another school that states we are products of nurture and not nature (Rad, 2010). We become accustomed to reacting to the stimuli that surrounds us in our lives. Psychoanalysis was started by Freud and it states that the behaviour is influenced by unconscious mind.

Humanistic is also another school and it is ...

1). Me: Describe your life and work in the field of psychology.

Sigmund Freud: Although I was born in Frieberg, Moravia, my family moved to Frieberg when I was just four years old and I spent most of my life there. Before joining the Gymnasium secondary school, I was homeschooled by my parents. From 1873 to 1881, I studied at the University of Vienna after graduation and graduated from the university with a doctorate degree in medicine (Jones, 1981). After that I worked and made a name for myself as a physician. I gained an interest in hysteria while working at the ...

Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud is a psychic form of literary criticism that has found its way to literature. Research attempts to link the psychoanalysis to the author or an interesting character in a piece of literature. The aims and objectives of the criticism revolve around therapeutic nuances that are very similar to the work of Sigmund Freud, Interpretation of Dreams. The major aspects that emerge as critical in the analysis dwells on thoughts and behaviors that fictional characters exhibit. In poetry, the analysis attempts an outlook of a poem’s structure. According to Jacques Lacan, the language structure and the unconscious stream ...

Personal transformation refers to a dynamic and uniquely individualized practice of increasing consciousness where individuals turn out to be critically knowledgeable of old, as well as new self-views, thereby choosing to integrate these opinions to a new self-definition (Campebell, 2004). Although these views might take the form of Transpersonal Psychology, Taoism, Contemplative Psychology or Confucianism, they are capable of distinctively conceiving the temperament of human existence thus transforming the individual differently (Campebell, 2004). As a result, this essay explores personal transformation through the various perspectives of Transpersonal Psychology, Taoism, Contemplative Psychology and Confucianism.

1) Transpersonal Psychology

Transpersonal psychology widens the theories of traditional psychology concerning ...

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Introduction

Human resource management is known as the management of the people, who are the part of the organization in such a way that it can increase the productivity of the organization. Contemporary human resources management can help the organizations to design its growth policy in such a way that it can also full fill the requirements of the employees of an organization. If the contemporary management of an organization will design its policies, which will be only goal oriented, then there is no doubt that the company will be able to achieve ...

Family counselling initially was carried out on legal, medical, reproductive and social aspects of family life, children’s upbringing and education problems. Period of 1940ies and beginning of 1960ies was marked by establishing and unfolding of counselling services of psychological help to family couples. The period of 1930-1940 gave birth to a special practice of family counselling, shifting focus from psychical disorders of a person on the problems of communication between the spouses (Bowen, 1966). In 1950ies the term and practice of family therapy/counselling was established. Unlike psychoanalyses, where the intra-psychical processes were in the center of attention, family counselling was ...

Foundation Course – Researching Psychology

Abstract Page The research being conducted has practical, theoretical and scientific value in the research field. Lacanian discourse analysis helps identify the treatment in psychoanalysis, can be applied to studying mental and social characteristics of a language spoken by various minorities. An interviewer and an interviewee took part in a research; the conversation was written down and attached to the paper on the consent of the interviewee. The theory of Lacanian Discursive Analysis has been applied to the paper in order to identify the symbolic and the imaginary unconscious reflected in the language spoken. In the first section ...

Fiction explores nature in a way that sometimes is more truthful than science. Even though for many years people believed that one was naturally inclined to love and cherish one’s parents, two thinkers two millennia apart expressed their opinions otherwise. The first of these was the artist, Sophocles in Oedipus Rex; the second, the scientists, Sigmund Freud, with his postulation of the notorious Oedipus complex. He saw a pattern in children, and himself, to go through a process in their infancy that was characterized by feeling attraction for one’s mother and the desire to kill one’s father. Freud remembered ...

In May 29, 2010, Michelle Roberts from BBC reported the connection between schizophrenia and creativity. In her article, she argued that creative minds ‘mimic schizophrenia.’ Supporting her article, British psychologist Mark Millard reiterated that “Creative people, like those with psychotic illnesses, tend to see the world differently to most. It's like looking at a shattered mirror” (Roberts, “Creative Minds Mimic Schizophrenia”). Another article from the Scientific American written by Scott Barry Kaufmann, director of the Imagination Institute at the University of Pennsylvania also tackled the nexus about Dali’s eccentric personality to the people suffering from schizophrenia. As a carte blanche, ...

Carl Gustav Jung's psychotherapeutic concept is closely related in its basis with the concept of Sigmund Freud, and at the same time very different from the latter. This can be explained by the personal peculiarities of Jung, the creator of analytic psychology. Being not only a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic but also a philosopher, Jung has left a lot of unique and practically applicable legacy whose importance is being constantly rediscovered in many of the spheres of human thinking - psychology, literature, education, culture, philosophy, sociology and many others.

Thesis.

This research paper will provide a brief overview of the peculiarities of Carl Gustav Jung's ...

The basis of Masson in The Assault on Truth. Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory denotes a psychoanalyst struggle to reject the establishment of Freud. The thesis of the article is based on the rejection of the seduction theory established in the perception that reject the reality of substitute and neurosis imagination. From this article, Masson paints a picture of the enduring theme of psychoanalytic history as a result of the emerging reports from the patients who had experienced sexual abuses during their childhood. The article The Assault on Truth. Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory seem to unearth the clinical ...

There is no simple definition of bisexuality because bisexual people are a very diverse group. Some of them tend to monogamous relationship, others may have more than one partner. There are several theories about the different models of bisexual behavior. Thus, there are 13 types of bisexuality based on the sexual desires and experiences. According to Flanders and Hatfield, alternating bisexuals may first have a sexual relationship with a man, and then can choose a woman, and then again return to men. Bisexual on the circumstances are mainly heterosexual, but can choose a partner of the same sex only in those situations where there ...

Introduction

Sexual offenses are a social menace and affect the public health directly. The growing instances of sexual crimes and growing numbers of sexual offenders have emerged as a major issue. The government, policymakers, and law enforcement agencies are very apprehensive regarding this issue and want this issue to be resolved as soon as possible. A number of steps, including treatment of sexual offenders, have been taken in order to improve the situation. This paper intends to discuss several treatment programs that are designed for the sexual offenders.

Literature Review

McHugh and Rider (1981) in his article “Treatment of sex offenders with anti-androgenic medication: ...

Expressed in Macbeth

Myths and legends are part of our common collective unconscious; they provide us with ways to process the feelings and aspirations we have as individuals to better ourselves and be rewarded for our hard work and moral goodness. There is also a psychoanalytical portrait to this sense of myth as well, as Freudian concepts of dreams and human fantasies of the unconscious combine with Jungian archetypes to create models of human behavior that we wish to emulate and look up to. No matter the story, be it Jesus or Holden Caulfield or Luke Skywalker, myths often operate on a very similar ...

Psychology

Psychoanalysis is considered as a treatment concept that relies on observation that people are often unconscious about various factors that influence their behavior and emotions. Originally the concept of psychoanalysis was developed by Sigmund Freud and later developed and modified by various experienced psychoanalysts. These unknown factors entail the source of considerable unhappiness and distress, where sometimes is acquires identifiable symptom trait and at other times troubling personality characteristic. Those factors may, therefore, cause difficulties in love relationship or the workplace, or mood disturbances and self-esteem. Because those factors are unknown, the advice of family and friend, self-help books, or ...

Originally, Sigismund Schlomo Freud, Sigmund Freud was born on May 6, 1856 in Freiberg, Moravia, Austria. His father, Jacob, is a former widower and a Jewish merchant. His mother, Amalia, is the second wife of Jacob. Freud is the first born, among the eight children of Jacob and Amalia. He is the favorite child of his parents; thus, giving him all the educational opportunities. He attended high school at Leopoldstadter Communal-Real-und Obergymnasium, where he already exhibited excellent intellectual prowess. At the age of four, his family moved to Vienna, where Freud would spend most of his life. In 1881, he graduated ...

Introduction

Family is the most basic and fundamental unit of the society. The strength of the family units determines the overall welfare of the society. Social progress and the stability of the family units are inextricably intertwined. The health of the family determines the general welfare of the society. Rules and regulations have been promulgated in different jurisdictions to protect the family from unqualified medical practice. In relation to this, mental health practice for a long time had been encroached by quacks and untrained medical practitioners. For the last twenty give years, therapy has been confined to individual and family therapy ...

Application of Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory

Application of Erikson’s Post-Freudian Theory

Introduction

Erik Erikson’s’ views make significant contributions to the field of psychology; this is particularly in the understanding of personality development and related factors. An understanding of his own study of personal development creates an understanding of development of his psychology (Fleming, 2004). Most of Erikson’s psychology work became evident in the post-Freudian era. It was between the 1930s and 1950s; being one of Freud’s students, most of his work exhibit the influence of Freudian views and theories; this was mainly in the field of personality development. However, dissimilar from Freud’ ...

As early as Biblical times, dreams have been given a special place; in ancient Egypt, Joseph’s interpretation of pharaoh’s dreams had awarded him an honorary place among his advisors, and was said to have saved Egypt from starvation. Working with dreams in therapy implies a belief that that dreams are meaningful and provide added value to the therapeutic process. Studies have shown that dreams can be influenced by a certain psychopathology, and that their content and patterns (e.g. recurring dreams, nightmares) reflect a person’s wellbeing (Pesant & Zadra, 2004).

The Nature of Dreams

Dreams can be defined as “hallucinatory subjective experiences” generated by one’ ...

Introduction

Psychology is a vast field. There are many laws, principles, and theories that govern the train of thoughts of psychologists and mental health professionals working in the field. Basically, psychology is a branch of science that is concerned with the academic and applied discipline of studying behaviors and mental functions of animals, which in this case, would be humans. Psychology is not only concerned with studying the behaviors and mental functions of an individual because it may also aim to study the behaviors and mental functions of a group or population. The objective of this paper is to discuss psychology in general, ...

In life, human beings experience traumatic events; whether accidents, death or any other trauma, such occurrences harm the person’s psychological well-being. In some cases, people are unable to deal with the aftermath of such occurrences; they thus deals with it by pushing it out of consciousness into the sub-conscious. Instead of dealing with the problem, they ignore it through psychological processes; this research paper focuses on the analysis of the process. It is a process known as repression (Loftus, 1993). Repression is a very general concept in the field of psychology researched by many scholars through the years. Psychologists ...

Sigmund Freud, commonly known as the father of psychoanalysis, was one of the most famous thinkers of the Twentieth Century. The importance he gave to those maladies that modern medicine could not cure embarked him on a path that allowed him to propose a new way of dealing with human suffering. While many people have criticized his theories, almost to the point where nobody actually practices psychoanalysis the way Freud intended, his thought remains a milestone in psychological studies and Western civilization in general. Due to these deformations, only texts by Freud will be used, with the purpose of studying what the ...