Unconscious Bias Essay

Freud’s Components of Personality and his Defense Mechanisms Sigmund Freud, an Austrian physician, developed the psychoanalytic theory in which he believed that personality is composed of three elements and each of them interacts with each other to influence human behaviors. According to Freud’s theory, some parts of personality are primitive, and other parts deal with reality (Cherry, What are the id, ego, and superego?, 2017). This essay will talk about the three elements of personality and…

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge”-Plato. In the novel Frankenstein human behavior is evoked from knowledge, or the desire to know. However, to what extent and in what ways is knowledge presented as dangerous and destructive? The novel depicts the theme of destructive knowledge in many aspects of the story, through the actions of the characters. The moral to this is the realization that: knowledge is the inverse of power. The novel starts with…

the possible long-term effects of traumatic events in childhood. However, there are some of the weaknesses of Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual theory. Firstly this theory focused mostly on male development. Secondly, concepts such as the libido, the unconscious mind are impossible to measure, and therefore cannot be tested scientifically. Thirdly, Freud based his theory on the recollections of his adult patients, not on actual observation and study of children. Finally Freud’s theory is based on…

Prompt 1: In Chapter 5 of Peter Barry's Beginning Theory, Barry talks about Freudian interpretations and how most Freudian interpretations deal with assigning sexual attributions to objects. Barry proceeds to give an example of Freudian interpretation by imagining a dream about a Roman soldier and what this soldier may represent to the dreamer. What may be an innocent dream about a father-like figure, or a heroic figure, turns into something of a sexual nature when inserting Freud's…

The Lives of Others (von Donnersmarck, 2007) explores the concept of the surveillance society and its effects on the surveilled. Surveillance has a sinister way in which it changes the way we think and act and has several psychological consequences. The Lives of Others follows the story of Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler and his mental anguish as he spies on artist Georg Dreyman and fellow girlfriend Christa-Maria Sieland. The film explores the idea of understanding humanity in an intimate nature through…

The word creativity as it is understood by modern sciences was brought up by Guilford, an expert in psychometrics, the measurement of mind, in 1950 when he published his paper “creativity.” To Guilford, creativity represented a power; a measurable psychological tendency to behave the human being is capable of. His definition of creativity associated the production of this power with novel ideas. “The creative person has novel ideas” and “creativity refers to the abilities that are most…

consciously hidden from others out of fear, embarrassment, shame or guilt and in some cases, accounts of notable events and the emotions associated, are protectively obscured unbeknownst to the narrator themselves. Interplay between the conscious and the unconscious and the effects on the development of individual personalities, character traits, and behaviors (Neukrug,…

8 Reasons To Use Hypnotism Mantra For Love Hypnotism is an art of controlling the mind and thought of any individual. This is the very old and effective art and its effect on the awareness and consciousness of the mind. Hypnotism mantra can be used for the different purposes; you can control any individuals through the hypnotism mantra by making the impact on the mind using the mantra and yantra of the hypnotism. There are many benefits of using hypnotism mantra; it can be used to complete your…

Descartes and Hume on the Self In order to understand Rene Descartes’ exposition of the self, it is necessary to begin with his Dream Argument. Essentially, this consists of the claim that there is no way to determine whether a particular experience is actually happening or is instead a dream (Bramann). Different experiences can vary in their vividness; indeed, there can be some dreams that seem to be happening with more authenticity than actual events that pass on the timeline. One can wake…

Jeana Schreiber Renzi LIT 398 March 22, 2016 SHATTERING GLASS: Affluenza and Narcissistic tendencies THESIS: Shattering Glass by Gail Giles presents the reader with an inside look of how affluenza and narcissistic personality disorder deal with a power dynamic where both enforcer and victim struggle for dominance. Psychoanalytic criticism and theory has two facets: Freudian and Jungian. Both are based on psychological theories by leading psychologists in the field of cause and effect. Freudian…