Carl Jung

Throughout his works, Freud emphasizes the power that civilization has in shaping an individual, the self. Though civilization’s ultimate goal as system is to help sustain human life, it requires control over the population in order to achieve this, and consequently causes suffering within society on a variety of levels. Freud’s theories of psychoanalysis aim to alleviate this suffering in order to allow individuals to sustainably function within society. Ultimately, Freud examines the current…

The Psychoanalytic Theory is one most significant personality theories today and is an important guide in the treatment of psychopathology. The idea of psychoanalysis was first introduced in the late 19th century by Sigmund Freud (1964) who conducted research on neurotic and hysterical symptoms, in his attempt to find an effective treatment for patients with anxiety and mental disorders. Sigmund Freud was one of the most central figures in Psychology and his theories are extremely important to…

Sigmund Freud conceptualised the working of the human mind through his famous ‘id, ego, and super-ego’ theory in 1923. According to Freud, the human mind is a complex interaction of the id, ego, and super-ego. All together the three make up what is known as personality, or the human ‘psyche’. To put it simply, the id is the instinctual function of the mind, the ego is the realistic function and the super-ego is the moral function of the mind. There is a familiar metaphor of angel and devil on…

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Through the Psychoanalytical lens Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalytic’s gives us insight into the different layers of a person’s psyche. The three layers of a person psyche’s get more complex as they go on, with the id being the most infantile, the ego being more rational, and the superego relying on complex thinking. The level of development of a person’s unconscious psyche depends largely on the way in which they were raised. In his novel A Yellow Raft in Blue…

As we know not only Sigmund Freud talked about uncanny but also there are other philosophers that did that too. First who discovered the uncanny was Ernst Jentsch in 1906 where he he defined uncanny by saying, “a product of intellectual uncertainly; so that uncanny would always as it were be something one does not know one’s way about in”. He added that the easiest way to create uncanny Is to always leave the reader in uncertainty or questioning. This basically leads people to start asking about…

According to Freud, personality develops in a person’s childhood years through a sequence of stages which he named “psychosexual theory of development”. Personality is the product of the interactions between the 3 elements of the mind namely; the id, the ego, & super ego. The simple motivating force of personality is identified as the “libido” which delivers the 3 elements that creates the personality namely the super ego, the ego and the id that develops through the “psychosexual stages (of…

“Unconscious Thought Fantasies and Dreams Repression Emotions The Mind” (McGowan). There are many details when it comes to talking about psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is the study of the emotions and thoughts of the human brain. Sigmund Freud, the man who created the theory of psychoanalysis. Freud grew up in the small town of Freiberg, Moravia which is now a part of the Czech Republic. Freud spent the majority of his adult life studying and testing his theory of psychoanalysis. This paper will…

In his Modernity and Its Discontents, Freud argues that human psyche is structured into three parts: id, ego, and superego. The id is the primitive part of human personality (I); it operates on the pleasure principle fulfilled by Eros (sexual love, desire for life) and Thanatos (aggressiveness, desire for death), regardless of the consequences (VI). However, civilization’s goal is to work in “the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…

Dream Symbols for Wild Cats and Crashing Planes The following two dreams were very interesting on how it brought terror for both dreamers; however, this is a good thing for it encourages them to view what is actually happening in their life. Once they acknowledge the truth, their next steps become clearer. Dream Every night, I keep having these dreams, they aren't always the same exact dream, but they all have the same similar component. At some point in my dream, there's a very large,…

the type of character that Freud would have obsessed over: a man with a perceived sense of mental stability but with a realm of repressed desires — all the more reason to explore the unconscious, the uncharted realms of the human psyche. Contrary to Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, the dreams in Dostoevsky’s novel function as something beyond the characterization of archetypes common to multiple individuals. Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment, proves to be more concerned…