Carl Gustav Hempel

designates one's personality type, based upon a classification scheme, which consists of four basic scales and two types within each scale. Thus, there are sixteen possible Myers-Briggs personality types. The scheme is based upon the intuitions of Carl Jung, whose gifted insight revealed that all people at all times are best understood in terms of extroversion, introversion, sensation intuition, and objective subjective. The latter category…

Abstract This paper will discuss the life and teachings of Karen Horney. The purpose of this paper is for one to learn about Horney’s life and her contributions to the field. Karen was largely known for her Neo-Freudian perspective. The following will discuss Horney’s Social and Cultural Psychoanalytic Theory. Karen was also one of the first feminist psychologists and greatly affected the beliefs of female psychology. Without Karen Horney’s studies and theories on female psychology and…

MERVE GÖVEÇ 01021106 ESSAY PSYCHOLOANALYTIC CRITICISM AND HAMLET Sigmund Freud was father of psychoanalytics. Psychoanalytic criticism is so important our life. Actually, we are un aware of psychoanalytic concepts, but it is a part of our everyday lives. The goal of Freudian theory was to reveal consciousness, repressed thoughts and feelings. There is reason and name of our behavior in the psychology. Our behavior can be explained by “ psychobabble ”.Psychoanalytic criticism is…

Assessment Period Task 2 P3: Criminal Behaviour Theory Sigmund Freud - Psychological Theory Sigmund Freud was born on the 6th May 1856. He was born in Freiberg, Czech Republic. As Freud became older and more intelligent, he developed a theory on “psychoanalysis”. This is a method which is an analyst unpacks all the unconscious conflicts based on the free associations, dreams and fantasies of a patient. He died 23rd September, 1939 in Hampstead. Sigmund Freud has a theory that all humans have…

For my application paper, I will focus on the topics of Rubin’s “Four Tendencies” and Irvine, The Stoics and Control. In the reading of Rubin’s framework, I learned that people usually fall within one of the four tendencies mentioned. Our inner and outer expectations play a huge role on our habits. The way we respond to our expectations classifies which tendency we fall under. “Our Tendency colors the way we see the world and therefore has enormous consequences for our habits” (Rubin, “The Four…

Mental life or psyche is understood as a bodily organ (the brain) plus the acts of consciousness. In The Dissection of the Psychical Personality, Freud discusses the psychic nature of the human mind. He begins by that One thing we know about ourselves is the never-ending conflict between our instinctual desires and our endeavor to resist them. In other words, personality, what makes the “I” is a product of how mental forces interact. Later he terms the region where instincts lie the id and the…

‘The Wasteland’ has been psycho-analytically studied to understand the poet’s psyche, the metaphor of images, symbols, etc. for new untouched and unexplored findings in the genre of practical criticism. The poem has been deciphered on the basis of three psychoanalytic models (a) Lacan’s ‘Language and Unconscious’ (b) C.G. Jung’s ‘Collective Unconscious’ and (c) Northrop Frye’s ‘Archetypal Criticism’. Lacan’s ‘Language and Unconscious’, attempts to read ‘The Wasteland’ in the likeness of…

In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, Danny Saunders questions the value of raising children in silence. Ironically, due to the fact that Danny’s father has imposed silence upon their relationship, Danny comes to realize how valuable talking can be to his personal growth. By the end of the story, he no longer believes in his father’s strict Hasidic views. The silence between Danny and Reb Saunders forces Danny to find other people to talk to. These people expose him to new ideas, ideas that his father…

Lucid dreaming occurs when one knows that they are having a dream. The term was created by Frederik van Eeden who used the word "lucid" in the sense of mental clarity. Lucid dreaming usually begins in the middle of a dream when the person to whom might be dreaming realizes that the experience is not occurring in physical reality, but is a dream. A person will usually only realize that they are dreaming when him or her realize some impossible or unlikely event occurring. The quality or level of…

Sigmund Freud’s intra-psychic theory on trauma was developed, from inspiration on his clinical case studies in the late nineteenth century. Freud took on the direction that the repression process is a defence against emotional trauma. The term repression was used to describe painful and emotional events, that are able to be blocked out from an individual’s conscious awareness. This is so that the painful effects of the event would not be experienced and intentionally forgotten (Cohen, 1985). The…