Carl Denham

Deceitful Dreams According to the Oxford Dictionary, a dream is, "A cherished aspiration, ambition, or ideal; An unrealistic or self-deluding fantasy." Dreams are different from one another and come in many shapes and sizes, but all dreams are purely a desire and are imaginative. In society, dreams play a large role in how people live their everyday life. For instance, people may make decisions solely based on their own dream. In the United States, a common ethos is the American Dream. The…

Jacques Lacan has developed the concepts the symbolic, real and imaginary order. This triad is extension of Freud’s triad of id, ego and super ego. But unlike Freud his interpretations are much wider in scope and dimensions. Human behavior in all societies can be investigated in the light of symbolic, real and imaginary order. Existence of symbolic order leads to the creation of undeclared constitution of what is considered a socially acceptable behavior and what not. How the characters in the…

Have individuals wondered what happen to the mind when doing various activities such as walking, sleeping or even watching a movie? And do individuals really aware of the surroundings while doing so? These questions can be answered by Freud’s Theory. Freud described the characteristics of mind’s structure and function using a topographical model. According to Freud, there are three stages of awareness in human mind such as conscious, subconscious and unconscious. The least region in Freud’s…

Sigmund Freud and Classical Psychoanalysis Background Sigmund Freud is the creator of Classical psychoanalysis. He was born in 1856 and died in 1939 (Cloninger, 2013). Freud’s work extended over the period of 45 years (Murdock, 2013). His work is considered to have an enormous influence on the profession of counseling throughout history of counseling and up until current counseling context (Murdock, 2013). Thus most of the theories major theories today about human behavior can be seen as…

My world is called Dreamtopia. It is called this because dream means, an unrealistic fantasy, and the suffix –topia means, landscapes. So together Dreamtopia means, an unrealistic fantasy landscape, which is just what my world is. In Dreamtopia there anything you can imagine and you can have anything you want, that is what makes it unrealistic. As I continue I will tell you about the rules, rulers, weather, technology, and a few other facts about this world. The rules for Dreamtopia are: always…

In Kendra Cherry’s article titled Dream Interpretation: What Do Dreams Mean she explores the varying theories behind what meanings dreams could possibly have and their interpretation according to experts in the field of psychology and cognitive studies. Cherry being a psychologist, supports the theory that it is likely dreams have a subconscious meaning. Many people share the belief their dreams have some sort of unknown meaning or an underlying message while others are skeptical. Some claim…

Overview of Karen Horney's and Erich Fromm’s Psychoanalytic Social Theory Psychoanalytic theory according to Karen Horney's psychoanalytic is about the cultural and social conditions, it began during childhood time, and she believe it has a significant effect on one’s personality. Similar with many other psychoanalysis, Horney also believe a lot of Sigmund’s observations and his finding, but she objected to most of his interpretations, including his notions on feminine psychology (Theories of…

According to Carl Jung in his essay, Psychology and Literature, “psychology being the study of psychic processes can be brought to bear upon the study of literature, for it is the human psyche from which sciences and arts originate”(Ross). These lines clearly hint that literature and psychology are very much related to each other. Literature deals with the deeper aspects of human life that can be analyzed through psychoanalysis (Freud 11). Literature is the product of mind and Psychology is the…

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…