Ambivalence

Annotated Bibliography Souris, Stephen. "`Only Two Kinds Of Daughters': Inter-Monologue Dialogicity In The Joy Luck Club." Melus 19.2 (1994): 99. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Oct. 2015. This article argues that The Joy Club invites analysis from critical perspectives that theorize and valorize fragmented, discontinuous texts and the possibilities of connection across segments. The author was saying that in “Two Kind”, mother from china and daughter American born that was causing problem in…

Ambivalence of the Sacred Religion is embedded in our culture and it influences how we see certain things. Christianity and the images of Jesus had played a huge part in early colonial America. “The Color of Christ” is a book written by Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey that provides a great insight on how race, religion and power play an important role in American history. Sometimes, Jesus figure will be used to give certain groups for unequal treatment, while other times it will give strength…

Essentially, the psychodynamic theory explains how unconscious thoughts are able to be moved to the conscious mind. The goal is to help the clients unscramble and get to the bottom of the underlying problem, allowing the client to have an understanding of the deeply-rooted cause for their emotions. The unconscious mind holds the painful memories. The individual expresses these feelings by developing defense mechanisms, seen as denial, projection, anger and isolation cause unhealthy relationship…

As a middle class, heterosexual, white female there are certain privileges that I have grown accustomed to. My life has been lived from the point of remote feminism, I have sprinkled my services as the privileged protector across the realm of the marginalized only when it has been convenient to do so. However, the time in which remote feminism is acceptable has now come to an end. Donald Trump has been elected to the presidency. The reality of this election cycle and its myriad of radiating…

of totalitarianism, “The role of the powerful father is filled in the protagonist Winston’s imagination by the projected image of Big Brother, toward whom the fictionals hero feels powerful ambivalence. The dehumanizing engulfment of both id and ego by the superego as the final resolution of this ambivalence is suggested…” (Porter 56). The Freudian term superego can be illustrated as a…

burdens of her daily life in the “Republic of Gilead,” Atwood effectively communicates her theme that inequality of the sexes still prevails in society and definitely in the male’s perception of a woman’s ascribed role. And, in the end, if such moral ambivalence continues to exist then humanity is just sowing seeds for future evils.…

hating each other-that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent”. Keeping aside these views of the critics, there is no denying of the fact that in the present day society ambivalence of different cultures is the need of the society. Only one thing we need to keep in mind is imbibing the best of other cultures and also retaining the best of indigenous culture. This aspect of assimilating and retaining the best from…

"Maestro" by Peter Goldsworthy is a classical novel which outlines the importance of place as it highlights the identity of characters. Cities throughout the novel are important to the reader as they view these places as what shapes the identity of both Paul and Keller. Important places throughout the novel that show the identity of characters are; Darwin and Vienna. Darwin is a small town and narrow-minded, as it shows the identity of both Paul and Keller. As well as, Vienna as it is beautiful,…

Many often point to slavery as the reason the American South seceded from the Union. That argument ignores the complex political strife existing between Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans. Due to cultural differences dating back to colonial times, a division between the two regions of the United States endured to the 1800s. The incompatibility of the North and the South persisted so long for deeper reasons than simply slavery, and this incompatibility infected politics. Talks of a…

Within the social perspective my issue with attachment could be called an anxious ambivalence. There are four types of attachment according to Bowlby’s attachment theory: secure attachment, avoidant attachment, ambivalent attachment, and disorganized attachment (Travis 264). Earlier, I mentioned how I would avoid expressing myself to people…