Carl Jung

It was the first week of class at University of North Carolina. I was already in college and attending one of my first freshman classes in a large auditorium. I remember that the college was UNC in particular because some people were wearing shirts and sweaters from the bookstore. It was dark outside even though the sun should have been out since I was going to class and doing things that I would normally always do during the day. There were lots of different characters in my dream, most of them…

Psychoanalytic theory is seen in “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner through the protagonist, Emily who displays some psychological problems of, fear of intimacy which can be connected to Erik Erickson Ages of Emotional Development, intimacy vs isolation, fear of abandonment which also can be connected to his trust vs mistrust AED, and oedipal fixation which connects to autonomy vs shame/doubt. According to Lois Tyson professor of English at Grand Valley State University, and Author,…

The human personality is a fascinating conception in the medical and psychological arenas. In the realm of the psychology, the Freudian personality theory is both relevant and irrelevant; however, it outlined the driving forces behind the personality. Freud’s theory involves the interaction of the layers of the mind to result in the human behavior and the conflict between components of the conscious preconscious and the unconscious. The Freudian theory gives an interpretation to distinctive…

The central ideas in Freudian/Psychoanalytic thought are the concepts of “the Id,” “the Ego,” and “the Superego.” Each of these ideas is the depersonalized concepts that Freud used to understand the human psyche and human behaviors. The “Id” is the largest portion of the human mind and is nothing but a mass of here and now urges. It is the childlike “I want” portion of the mind. The next portion, the “Ego,” is the controller of the “Id” because it is governed by the reality principle, which…

The purpose of this paper is to cover similarities and differences of the Skinner’s theoretical perspectives within the theories of behavior to those of Freud and Rogers across multiple theoretical areas. Skinner, Freud and Rogers contribute so much in the pool of knowledge in Psychology in areas such as behaviorism, psychoanalysis and self-psychology (Munday, 2014). Skinner is known as the behaviorist, Freud as psychoanalyst and Rogers as self- psychologist. However, the Skinner’s concepts…

Dreams are a very controversial subject in psychology. Psychologists have not come to agreement on what dreams may signify, mean, or what their purpose might be, however, they do have several theories. The three most popular dream theories are psychoanalytic, activation-synthesis, and information processing (White, 2017). Each theory is unique and offers different ways of looking at the way the brain works. Sigmund Freud wrote the book The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and created the…

Everyone in the world has something that makes them unique, it explains to a certain extent their responses and behavior. Personality is the component that makes people different but traits are what make up ones personality. In “The Psychopath Test” by Jon Ronson it focuses on how can you tell whose a psychopath, what certain traits or behaviors should you look for to determine a psychopath? It goes into detail in the book of a certain test that is used by a lot of psychologists to see if a…

Sigmund Freud, inventor of psychoanalysis used for the treatment of mental illness and neurosis, mentions that the human mind is comprised of the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious, which continue to control us daily. Behind these three components of the mind is the battle between the unconscious id being driven by pleasure, the superego, which is the instinctive ethical choice, and the ego aiming to please both elements. William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, depicts three…

Sigmund Freud proposed that the dreams we have show what we want to feel but are too afraid to admit. He used the terms ‘manifest content’ and ‘latent content’. Manifest content can be defined as the remembered story line of the dream. For example, if you had a dream about going to a casino and gambling. The manifest content is remembering that you lost at the table or the machines. Latent content is applying that dream into your unconscious mind to interpret what it means. The gambling may…

Everybody has a unique personality that influences who we are, how we act, and the nature of our relationships. Our personality is inescapable and essentially shapes us as individuals. Despite its centrality to human existence, defining what impacts attribute to specific personalities, and consequent behaviour patterns, is something that is still heavily debated today, and as such, many alternating theories have evolved in an attempt to explain these concepts. (Shultz & Shultz, 2009). Sigmund…