Carl Jung

Discuss your views and commentary on the issues surrounding the historiography of psychology. What is psychology? To begin, psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and its processes, including behavior. To be more explicit psychology is a complex, diverse, and in-depth disciplinary that has grown dramatically in its area of interests since its founding. What I particularly appreciate most about this discipline is the comprehensive list of subfields within its branch of division.…

Sigmund Freud was born in Frieberg, Moravia in 1856 where he lived until the age of four. In 1859 Freud and his family moved to Vienna, Austria because of financial problems after his father had failed at making a small business. While in Vienna, Freud had many interests, but because of his Jewish heritage, he couldn't participate in many activities. However, he did participate in high school, where because he was very intelligent, he graduated Summa cum laude in 1873. After he graduated, he…

The concept of the “personal legend” is not a new one. It has been been bouncing around the collective human psyche, in one form or another, almost as long as human themselves have existed. It is the notion of destiny- of a person’s one true dream, passion, purpose or goal, the thing that provides a definitive pathway through what may otherwise seem a meandering and formless existence. In the novel The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Santiago concludes that life is generous to those who pursue their…

Psychodynamic approach to Phobias On the word of Sigmund Freud “Phobias act as a defence against the anxiety experienced when impulses formed by the id (the pleasure seeking part of the mind) are repressed, resulting in a displacement of repressed feelings on to the object/situation with which it is symbolically associated.” (Bennett 2003). Consequently these turn into phobic stimuli and the person can avoid dealing with these repressed conflicts by neglecting them. These unresolved conflicts…

Throughout our existence, we have more than likely found ourselves wondering about the meaning of our dreams. Dreams have fascinated philosophers for thousands of years, and have been subjected to empirical research and scientific studies. Scientists have been performing sleep and dream studies for decades now. Dreams can be extremely vivid or very vague; filled with joyful emotions or scary imagery; focused and understandable or unclear and rather confusing (Cherry). Dreams are so…

Dreams serve as an effective way to look deeper into the character of a novel. Dreams allow authors to speak through their characters in a new way and act as a ploy to insert an idea or theme into a narrative, subtly. Dreams can speak to the mind of a character in profound and indirect way (WC) as well. Furthermore, dreams reflect both A Map of Home and Minaret and act as a motif to highlight the main characters as well as add to characterization. The two protagonists, Najwa and Nidali, come…

An uncomfortable message is given by the movie Revolutionary Road. Within the movie, the main characters, Frank and April Wheeler, begin as a spontaneous, enriching couple. They have their first child and believe they could still reside in their exciting life. Before long, the couple recognize that they start to behave like the society in which they live in. Angry conflicts between the two arose in which closely relates to Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents. Freud’s book…

Additionally, Adler’s theory of masculine protest influenced The Sun Also Rises. After reflecting on societal trends, Adler concluded that men see themselves as superior and have more control than women in society (Boerre 26). Throughout the novel, Brett changes her relationships constantly, but is always involved in a romantic relationship with one or more male characters at a time. Brett is independent because she chooses which men to have a relationship with, but, she is controlled by her…

These stages are based on a person’s social experiences. In addition, it really focuses on a person’s development in their adolescence years because Erikson believes that the adolescence stage is a crucial moment in developing a person’s identity. The two human development theories are quite different because Freud’s theory does not involve one’s personality evolving into adulthood, while Erikson does. In other words, the Psychosexual Theory will keep the person fixated in one stage until they…

Sigmund Freud and John B. Watson are two of the most famous pioneers of psychology. Though they had different ideas of how the human mind worked, the two had similar theories on human behavior. Sigmund Freud's’ background in biology, physiology, and neurology influenced his work in the field of psychology. Freud founded the branch of psychology known as psychoanalysis. He studied neurological reasons for people's behaviors, theorizing that people's phobias and mental illnesses stem from…