Carl Jung

Dream Theory Everyone on planet Earth dreams, whether they claim they dream or not. Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind, typically occurring during REM sleep. But, why do people dream? Many famous psychologists have come up with theories on why humans dream and the purpose of a dream is. One such psychologist is Sigmund Freud with his famous, yet non-scientific, theory that dreams are symbolic expressions of a person’s unconscious conflict or…

events that occurred in our waking state. Freud challenged this when he used the following statement, “like a cheap material always available and put to use whenever needed” this was used to explain how memories that happened during the waking part of the day and physical sensations while in the unconscious were not to be fully blamed for the cause of dreams, but rather they were elements in part of the dreams that were just there to be used by the psyche whenever determining the meaning of the…

superego takes control and changes his perspective drastically. He realizes that if he gives in to intimacy, he will rob the young girl of her innocence. Holden’s psyche has become so compromised with the complexities of Allie’s death that he cannot bare the idea of taking someone’s innocence. He swells up with guilt and refuses to have sexual intercourse with this young prostitute in order to preserve her innocence. From a Freudian perspective, Holden was deprived of his own innocence after…

Metaphors are a way to abstractly discuss life, time, and history through vivid descriptions that awaken the imagination. As a master of figurative language, Shakespeare has enticed his audience for centuries through his beautiful and complex relationship of words, and the multitude of perspectives they offer. Throughout his works, he includes historical context, linguistic inferences, and significant interactions with the similes and metaphors that play a dynamic role in the life of the story.…

Neurologist Sigmund Freud once said, “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious” (“The Interpretation”). Sigmund Freud firmly believes that dreams allow people to be what they cannot be, and to say what they can not say in our more repressed daily lives (Freud). Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a novel that involves dreams to symbolize characters and foreshadow situations. Raskolnikov’s dreams may give more insight to his mind than the entire novel. Raskolnikov experiences four…

Psychology began as a study of the soul. Plato believed the soul was an individual’s belief they are distinct from but also connected to their physical and social environments. Aristotle believed the soul was a set of psychological powers or attributes. In fact, Garcia-Valdecasas (2005) noted that Aristotle used the term ‘mind’ to collectively refer to these attributes. From that, psychology evolved into a science of the self. James (1890) viewed the self as a fundamental concept in the ‘science…

Individual Psychology (Adler, 1927) Adler (1927) introduce an emphasis on the social and creative aspects of human experience into the psychodynamic school unlike S. Freud (1900) and Jung (1912) who focused on the biological basis of personality. Adler (1927) believed social interest was a master motive underlying human behaviour, not sexuality as S. Freud (1905) has suggested. Peluso et al (2004) noted that social interest is the capacity of individuals to create and fulfil their sense of…

We looked at drawings again at the Learning Center like the last week. The first picture we saw was the same picture as the last time, the drawing in which a guy who was overprotected by his mother drew. The picture was the same, but what I felt from the picture was slightly different. I saw something I didnʻt see the last time. Today, I saw the faceless figure and felt a creepy feeling because if I had to draw a person(especially my family member), I would draw a face definitely. However, his…

I have selected to observe the video titled “Preschool free play, video number two”. The classroom is an enriched environment containing many different materials that the children can choose from. Jean-Jacques Rousseau work, is categorized under maturationist theory which support this classrooms environment. His work emphasizing the importance of providing optimal conditions, to help children develop accordingly to their own schedule (Brewer, 2007, p.7). Throughout the observation the…

I thought that was ironic as I have often been referred to as a workaholic. While not as overt in its description, the Jung assessment stated that I have a strong leaning towards “conventional” behavior and the DISC assessment said that I like proven solutions and can be resistant to change. The Jung assessment also talks about how we typically talk infinite trouble over meals and gifts for our loved ones and the DISC assessment says that I get caught up in…