Carl Jung

The novel ‘The Alchemist’ written by author Paulo Coelho explores the idea that techniques help the audience to experience a discovery through the text. ‘The Alchemist’ delves into the journey of a young shepherd boy, Santiago, and his belief in powers of fortune and nature. He demonstrated the emotional and mental strife people have been facing every day in order to achieve a discovery. Coelho talks about the simple things in life that appealed to Santiago, but his mentality forced him to seek…

Archetypes are essential and they shape up every story. They are the typical characters, symbols, or situations that are seen over and over again in many pieces of literature, they are a universal language. An archetype is something that is implanted in the human social unconscious. The usage of archetypes by writers allow readers to feel instantly connected to the stories, which is why writers continue to use them. The archetypes: heroes, damsels in distress and the devil figures are all…

Freud’s Greatest Accomplishments Although many of Freud’s theories are no longer used today due to controversies, he made a great impact on psychology. His work helped form our views on childhood, personality and sexuality. Freud left such a great impact on psychology that there is a school of thought that developed from his work, known as psychoanalysis. Many other great thinkers were influenced by Freud’s theories, while others opposed his views. Some of Freud’s greatest accomplishments and…

Sigmund Freud wasn’t the man all his followers think he was, and he didn’t contribute to psychology as everyone thinks either. Freud was a drug addict who was also obsessed with sexual topics. Sigmund Freud sexually abused his patients into getting them to “remember repressed memories,” and he recorded all of his experiments. He saw self-control and guilt as mental illness, and called free will and religion “the universal obsessional neurosis” and “mass delusion”.2 To Sigmund Freud the whole…

A natural satisfaction is always wrought when anyone fully accomplishes something that they set out to do. The ending to The Alchemist was a very fulfilling conclusion featuring the two-part completion of Santiago’s Personal Legend and featuring a comical instance of irony leading up to the final achievement of his search for his treasure that has more than just a humorous tone, reiterating the lessons Santiago has learned from the inner transformation of alchemy. Santiago’s viewing of the…

The psychoanalytic theory mainly focuses on how the unconscious mind influences behavior and thoughts. Emphasis is placed on previous childhood experiences and events and how they may have influence on the adult mind and actions. The psychoanalytic theory also proposes that people are innately bad natured. While I do agree that childhood experiences and traumas can most definitely affect the adult psyche, I don't believe that childhood experiences are the end-all, be-all of adult behaviors and…

When someone hears the word dream, what words come to their mind? It might be a hope, a trance, or even a wonder. I think of the word ambition. A dream to me is something that I look forward to and it keeps me moving forward to achieve a major goal in my life. Dreams are different in each perspective, but some try to crush others’ dreams. Some think their dreams are more valuable than others. However, who’s to say someone’s dreams are worthless? No one should, but unfortunately that is not the…

First, Santiago’s fear of failing to achieve his dream in the future causes him to be more reluctant in proceeding with his journey. During the journey Santiago’s heart “began to speak of fear. It told him stories it had heard from the Soul of the World, stories of men who sought to find their treasure and never succeeded. Sometimes it frightened the boy with the idea that he might not find his treasure” (Coelho 144). The fear of not being successful in a journey, backed up by stories of…

• Kimberly Cooper, Penny Ferrell, Jasmine Buchanan, Kaitlyn Boyd, Shana Forman, Angel • None • Shana Forman • We met in the dining room after our Social Work IV class at the UM-Tupelo campus.  Where is the task group in terms of developmental stages? In our task group the evidence from Tuckman’s development model forming, storming, norming, and performing helped us establish where we needed to start. Each one of these steps builds off the previous one and with every new piece of research…

87). Jung was a reader of philosophy, which included Kant, Carus, von Hartmann, and Leibniz. Jung increased is understanding of the unconscious he needed to meet different cultures and societies (2012, p.…