Examples Of Final Fictionalism

Final Fictionalism is the ultimate goal that guides and shapes a person’s personality. In my case, it is to reach true happiness. Whether it is a fleeting moment or an extended people of time, my true goal is to feel complete and total happiness. Although, like any human I have a tendency to self sabotage, it still guides me. I always attempt to alleviate my own anxiety and the stress of those around me. I can’t perfect this but I do what I can to make things easier. I know I may never achieve this but the potential is a driving force in my everyday life and has been for a long time. Freud’s stages of personality development although helpful explanations in some cases but typically limits everything to childhood experiences. Freud believed an individual’s personality was solidified by the age of 5 which I tend to disagree with. Many things such as a traumatic experience can happen after the age of 5 which would …show more content…
As it’s name may suggest, it’s the typically negative side of the unconscious which follows us in the back of our head. We are to a degree suppress the shadow in order to avoid societal backlash. Although to completely suppress the shadow would be to suppress human creativity, emotion, and basically all of our primal instincts. There needs to be a balance between the wildness of the shadow and what would be deemed normal by society. It can be positive though but still hidden within because it doesn’t match with the outward vision of yourself you may want to present to the world. Without the shadow, a person would become completely controlled by the unconscious which would create an unbalance of the psyche. Typically, the shadow is the opposite of your true self. It’s the person with no control who runs solely off of their primal instincts. This tends to be a theme in movies and television where a character battles with who they truly are and who they may be