Carl Bernstein

The Bimini Road is something that you probably haven't even heard about before. The Bimini Road, also called the Bimini Wall, is an underwater road that has a very mysterious creation that nobody knows about. It has been a conundrum for a very long time, but there are also many theories to what it is. I believe that it was once a wall that was encircling an ancient city. The Bimini Road is located north of the island of Bimini. It was first discovered in 1968 by Joseph Mason Valentine. The road…

Sigmund Freud developed psychodynamic theories on personality. According to him there are three elements to our personality. First the ID, second the ego and third the superego. He believed that each element kept the other in check – meaning if all elements are well balanced the person is having a healthy personality. Freud also developed a theory where he believed that our subconscious developed defense mechanisms to help us cope with anxiety and conflict. Freud also developed the most…

{No intro yet or conclusion}Psychological criticism is a method in which reading as dictated by Freud is applied to analyse texts, as Freud argues that the main argument to this theory is that texts such as dreams present unconscious desires of the author. Ursula K. Le. Guin is best known “for inventing fantasy worlds and uncommon experiences in such a way that readers can see themselves in the stories’ reflections,” as X.J Kennedy and Dana Gioia pointed out. Le. Guin demonstrates this in “The…

Author Alfred Adler, Austrian psychiatrist, was born in February 7, 1870. Adler was the second of seven children. While growing up, Adler suffered from physical ailments which included rickets and pneumonia. True to his theory on birthing order, Alder was always competitive with his older brother. Alfred Adler was already a part of the medical field. He started his medical career as an ophthalmologist and went on at a later date became a general practicnoer. One of the main areas of interest…

Personality development can be explained through a psychoanalytic approach using the theories of Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Freud was an Austrian physician who treated patients with mental illness. He was a great thinker that developed numerous psychological theories that had their fair share of controversy. Freud believed human behavior was due to the interaction between the id, ego, and superego; the three components of personality. The id is the source of the inherited, instinctual drives known…

Freud created many contributions to Psychology. Among those contributions is a famous theorem known as the theory of personality. The theory of personality can be broken down into three parts, the id, the superego, and the ego. It’s what Freud believes what shapes a person’s personality. The id is what satisfies the minds basic urges and needs. It’s the part that thinks unconsciously, meaning it would make someone do something without thinking about the consequence of that action. The superego…

Psychodynamic therapy originated as a divergence from psychoanalytic therapy and theory when Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung disagreed on multiple elements of theory and how therapy should be conducted. Jung did not agree with Freud’s belief that sexuality was the main motivational principle for human beings. Jung also felt Freud was mistaken regarding a lack of importance based on spiritual and transpersonal elements of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory (Safran & Kriss, 2014, p. 28). These…

To every paranormal experience, there are two sides; the truth of the person who has experienced it and the truth of the event itself. Each experience comes with its own history of what had led to it, along with the significance behind it. Although there are strong cultural aspects to a spiritual experience, specifically spiritual possession, anthropologist Obeyesekere’s case study shows the importance of understanding the psychological causes as well, if not more. In his work, Obeyesekere…

In Intellect:Mind over Matter, Mortimer Adler probes the relationship between the mind and the body. He describes the four main theories regarding this relationship and separates them into two categories: extreme and moderate. Among the four theories, Adler argues in favor of moderate immaterialism. His argument is easily the most convincing as it accounts for the essential difference between man and animal, our intellect, while acknowledging the congruity between the mind and body. The extreme…

An archetype; a very typical example of a certain person or thing. In the early 20th century, a Swiss Psychiatrist named Carl Jung suggested that there exists ways to communicate certain experiences and emotions. With this being said, he created a universal and recognizable way to organize distinct behaviours into 12 different groups in which he named archetypes. Each person should be able to title themselves as at least one of them. Up to this date, many other philosophers have established…