Carl Lewis

Richard III and Yasunari Kawabata’s The White Horse rely heavily on dreams and how they convey or affect how one is feeling by delving into the unconscious mind, much like one does today. Dream interpretation is a widely recognized concept through the world. People have analyzed and interpreted dreams throughout history in many civilizations that had different cultures and religions. It is referenced in traditional Chinese medicine as well. By definition, dreams are the mental activity…

Introduction: Sigmund Freud, founding father of psychoanalysis, introduced the term ‘Oedipus complex’ for the first time in his book, ‘Interpretation of Dreams” (1899). He opined that the concept is a desire for sexual involvement with the parent of the opposite sex, which produces a sense of competition with the parent of the same sex and a crucial stage in the normal developmental process (Freud, 1913). In other words, Freud used the term to refer to a stage in the development of young boys.…

The question whether a person’s character is shaped solely by inherited traits or also by experiences and social interactions is the central topic of the ongoing nature vs. nurture debate amongst psychologists and sociologists. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays various kinds of social interactions as the protagonist Amory Blaine meets many different people throughout his life. While he crosses paths with some people without any repercussions, other people continue to have a…

The Hero with a Thousand Faces is Joseph Campbell's significant work on the "monomyth." He follows the root of various myths and consolidates a few textures all through the myths to frame the solitary "prototype legend mission." Building off of Jung's concept of the Collective Unconscious, Campbell applies this idea to world mythology and finds that mythologies completely different have comparative occasions and structure. The Power of Myth initially publicized as a progression of meetings…

The purpose of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) personality inventory is to make the theory of psychological types described by C. G. Jung understandable and useful in people's lives. The essence of the theory is that much seemingly random variation in the behavior is actually quite orderly and consistent, being due to basic differences in the ways individuals prefer to use their perception and judgment. "Perception involves all the ways of becoming aware of things, people, happenings,…

In the “Notes From the Underground”, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the Underground Man suffers from repetition compulsion. Repetition compulsion is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud; it is where the victims of a traumatic experience are unable to progress mentally and compulsively repeat actions to release similar sensations to that of the trauma. (Van Der Kolk,389) There has been limited research done in the field of repetition compulsion over the past 70 years; but it has been noted as an…

Throughout literary history, many philosophers have studied and analyzed the psychological meaning and connections between book characters and psychology over time. Psychology has, of course, evolved and changed, yet we can still see the older psychological theories having connections to older works of literature such as in Shakespeare's Hamlet. In Hamlet, Hamlet can best be analyzed through Freud’s Psychosexual and Psychoanalytic theories. Throughout the novel, Hamlet displays the…

about by key proponents, namely Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Alfred Adler. Frued’s approach to psychoanalysis grew out of his desired attempts to treat mental disorders. During the period of 1894 – 1900, Freud went through a period of what was later to be known as his period of “creative illness”. It was in this period of time in which he analysed his own psychological disturbances and emerged with the basic elements of his psychoanalytic theory. Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who developed…

If ever there were a theory of the human mind in the history of psychology that was antithetical to the idea of Occam’s Razor, it would be classical psychoanalysis. Classicial psychoanalysis refers to the psychological and therapeutic theories and techniques created by Viennese physician Sigmund Freud. The main tenet of psychoanalysis is that much of our behavior and thought stems from primitive unconscious forces that dwell within us. These forces lie outside our conscious awareness and control…

Freud was one of the earliest psychoanalysis to share the belief that personal development is a crucial and non-negotiable part of counselling training. He believed in order to acquire the ideal qualification in the counselling profession that one must enter into a deep analysis of oneself (Freud, 1964). Through this self-analysis it will allow the trainee counsellor the opportunity to delve into every aspect of their personality, morals and values. I being a trainee counsellor would personally…