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    Nina's struggle seems to represent the inner conflict between the Id, the ego and the superego. Key to the psychodynamic approach is the idea that there's a link between present day behaviours and early infant development. Freud believed that the human personality is governed by unconcious processes of the human psyche. Freud asserted that the human psyche is organised into 3 different aspects ,these are : The Id : This is what Freud refers to as the pleasure principle ,governed by instinctual…

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    Defining Psychobiography: Psychohistory can be divided into two distinct branches, psychobiography which deals with the study of individuals; and group psychohistory which deals with the psychological characteristics of groups such as the Nazi youth cohort, American slaves, or Hiroshima survivors (Lifton 1967; Loewenberg 1971)(As cited by Runyan 1988). Psychohistory can be simply defined as the application of psychology to history, with an associated definition of psychobiography as the use of…

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    Dreams are the agglomeration of the fleeting flight of hidden hopes and horrors that a person experiences. Therefore, dreams are the looking glass with which we can glimpse a person’s inner character and the reason why they act as they do. In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, the author emphasizes how dreams mirror reality by accentuating within the characters their subconscious guilt and fears, by providing insight into the hidden underscoring concept of the character during their…

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    J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, published in 1951, has become known as an American classic – but it has also been highly controversial, to the extent of being banned in certain schools. The novel has been the center of several debates, with some arguing the moral issues and psychological battles presented are eye-opening and “relevant to the youth of today,” forcing readers to reexamine society, while others criticize it and claim the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is profane and…

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    The Alchemist is about a shepherd named Santiago from a town in Spain, who has a recurring dream about a treasure buried next to the pyramids of Egypt. He meets a man who claims to be the King of Salem, telling Santiago that his Personal Journey is to search for his treasure. The king gives Santiago two stones called Urim and Thummim, which will help him in his times of need. On his journey, he meets an Englishman who introduces him to alchemy. They stop in Al-Fayoum to avoid any interaction…

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    Origin Of Dreams

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    Have you ever thought about where dreams come from? We have all been there in the middle of the night, where a dream seems so real that you wake up thinking you have actually experienced it. Some people think dreams happen because we are recalling events that occurred earlier in the day, or maybe because we are able to have visions from the future, but do we really know their main origin? Aristotle once defined dreams as a perceptionless state where our senses of our outside stimulus are shut…

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    In the beginning of the early 17th century, consciousness had became full center in thinking about the mind and how it works. From the mid-17th through the late 19th century, consciousness had become considered necessary or definitive of the mind. Consciousness means the state or quality of awareness, or of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. René Descartes defined the belief of thought (pensée),Pensee means a though or reflection, this is a poetic from of an epigram…

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    It does not employ rigorous scientific testing and tends to rely on Freud’s own theories and interpretations, which have been derived from his analysis of case studies (dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries) and therefore cannot be applied to the general population. Freud has been accused of overemphasising sex as the motivating force behind many psychological phenomena, while social relationships are underplayed. For example, his theory of psychosexual development. Psychoanalysis…

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    Alfred Adler Compensation

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    HOW DİD FİND TO TERM OF COMPENSATİON? Alfred Adler, founder of the school of individual psychology, introduced the term compensation in relation to inferiority feelings. In his book Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Physical Compensation (1907) he describes this relationship: If one feels inferior (weak) he / she (usually) tries to compensate for it somewhere else. Adler's motivation to investigate this was from personal experience. He was a very sickly child. He was unable to walk till…

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    Scientists have argued whether or not dreams have a true purpose when it comes to humans. In chapter four of, “The Storytelling Animal,” Jonathan Gottschall argues that indeed dreams do have a true function. However, he also claims that “a function for dreams or pretend play or fiction doesn’t mean that we’ve identified the function.” (Page 86). I agree with Gottshchall pertaining to his outlook on dreams having a purpose. Through his varied research, Gottschall concludes that dreams are simply…

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