Anna Freud

Any time a person is dreaming and she or he understands their dreaming it's called a lucid dream. When a strange dream makes a person stop and question reality is when it typically occurs. Lucid dreaming has an interesting aspect to it, and it's the ability to regulate the dream and make some other reality in the dream state, which is the reason why lots of people learn the fundamental lucid dreaming steps. A lot of cultures from ancient times took lucid dreaming very seriously. For instance,…

PSYCHODYNAMIC. Throughout this assignment I will be discussing the theorists, including sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. I will also be discussing their theories and stages that they feel that we all should go though. Both of the theories use psychodynamic approaches which means that the mind is constantly active. The psychodynamic approach includes all the theories in psychology that see human functioning based upon the interaction of drives and forces within the person, particularly…

In which way are the studies carried out by Adorno (1950) et al. and Allum (2011) linked? The reason why this is an interesting question is that it provides a measure of how much Adorno's studies have profoundly influenced not only the sociology of his time and the classical studies, but are still capable of provoking a reflection that can find an expressive space in the contemporary psychosocial context. Allum has in fact used part of Adorno’s theory to explain why people believe in…

Title: Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind Author: Dr. V. S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee About the author: Dr. V. S. Ramachandran is a professor of neurology and psychology at the University of California, San Diego, and Sandra Blakeslee reports on Science for The New York Times. All about Phantoms The book describes Dr. Ramachandran's experiences with patients who had clinical problems and provides an insight into how the human brain works. Dr. Ramachandran…

Foucault Vs Durkheim: A Comparison Between Deviation In Of Madness Itself: Histoire de la Folie and the Object of Psychiatric History, Nikolas Rose provides an analysis of Histoire de la Folie by Michel Foucault. In Rose’s article, he poses the question, “What is specific to madness itself?” (1987, p. 142). Rather than having a specific definition or characterization of ‘madness,’ the term is in relation to the constitutions of society (Rose 1987, p. 143). The idea of ‘madness’ is…

Freudianism Theory in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Sigmund Freud created the idea of the ‘psychologically divided self’, describing how there were three parts to the mind: the id, the ego, and the super-ego. Freud states how humans have the “The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in a man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture”(Freud 49). The ‘id’ represents a human’s primitive component of their mind, the ‘ego’ is where human’s mind make the…

Drawing from the fundamental works of Freud on the unconscious, Jung describes an experience with a particular patient that leads him to branch off and theorize the existence of the collective unconscious. For Jung, the collective unconscious is a space of unconscious thought and symbolic expression…

Sigmund Freud's Ideologies in Lord of the Flies German screenwriter Werner Herzog says that Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness." William Golding expresses his insights through Lord of the Flies where Jack, Ralph, and Piggy evolve as both individuals and role models throughout the book. Each typify one of Sigmund Freud's three levels of consciousness: the id, the ego, and the superego. The young school boys demonstrate their distinct thinking…

Daydreaming is a way help people to escape from the cruel reality and daydreamers are people who always daydreaming. Both Walter Mitty and Miniver Cheevy are daydreamers. Walter Mitty lives a normal life, but he is unsatisfied with his life. He always indulges in his imagination, daydreaming he is a hero, trying to run away from the reality. Miniver Cheevy is a lazy drunkard who thinks he would be a hero, someone great if he born in the ancient. He blames everything to the time, thinking he born…

Jungian Archetypes in “Perseus” The use of Jungian archetypes in the Roman myth, “Perseus,” demonstrates common unconscious prototypes that humanity as a whole shares. In addition, analyzing the myth through these archetypes enlightens modern society about why we have the preconceived images that we do about our societal roles. The Jungian archetype theory has been used for many years to analyze myth, as well as religious and psychological ideas. The definition of the word archetype without the…