Carl Sagan

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who established the body of analytical psychology. He stated that every person has several personalities within oneself. Basically, we can look at one’s personality from four different categories, persona, shadow, anima/animus and archetypes. The easiest to recognize is persona. Persona is a social mask that we all show to the public. We change the roles in different situations in society. For instance, a student acts as an attentive respectful person who…

Breaking into and out of the Blues: The Universal Neuroses of Mankind in Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin In Sonny’s Blues, James Baldwin illustrates what Sigmund Freud might call the “universal neurosis of mankind.” It is also the story of overcoming the silence caused by that neuroses, which for Freud, is deeply rooted in the history of human conflict. Baldwin’s story gives the reader an intimate look at the reciprocal nature of societal repression and the way in which people express that…

This week’s myth was on research showing that dreams have symbolic meaning. This psychological belief goes all the way back to Freud, who stated that dream interpretation was not universal, even though he treated it like it was. I was most surprised to learn that this belief actually stems from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. I knew it wasn’t a new belief, but I did not know that belief was over a hundred years old. This myth has persisted because we believe in a subconscious self, and we…

Sabina played a big role in the development of the movie. She was the center of Jung’s and Freud’s disputes and psychoanalytic advances. Sabina suffered from attacks that she could not control and did not yet know the root of. She was disobedient, disorganized, and sort of manic. Jung began to treat her by sitting her in a chair facing away from him so she was able to be honest and answer questions accordingly. She was describing her abusive father and she believed her attacks were brought…

Grass is incapable of speech. Or any intelligent thoughts for that matter. But if grass was sentient, what would it think of human race. Would it be impressed by our progress, or disappointed at all the obstacles we have yet to overcome? Carl Sandberg seems to believe the latter, as he writes of an impassive being posing as grass. He captures the unbiased perspective of nature and illustrates how pointless human warfare is to a being above such trivial matters. Sandburg, in his poem Grass,…

This lens first originated in the early 1900’s from Austrian psychologist, Sigmund Freud and his theory of the psychodynamic perspective. Freud had a student named Carl Jung who did more research into archetypes of characters. Jung’s research took a wider angle view than Freud’s. He looked how characters were similar overall instead of looking at one particular character. Freudian theory suggests that the unconscious…

No one truly understand the meaning to why we dream. Some researchers believe that dreams are random and meaningless activities of the brain. While others believe its necessary for people’s mental and emotional health. The most known well dream theory is one that is constructed by Sigmund Freud. The foundation of Freud’s theory lies on the idea that dreaming allows people to fulfill the desires that they are not able to express in the real world. Dreams permits the unconscious mind to play…

Continuation of the Dream Dreams are the very fabric of people’s expectations. Some know what they dream of being and some don’t. I am a psychology major and I want to become an adolescent therapist. I knew this long before I started my dream project. It’s what I have always wanted to do. I knew I would have to have good social skills and understanding of others feelings. I also understood that I would have to go to grad school and that I would not make an extravagant amount of money. I…

Music education. There are various definitions of the word, but what is my definition? Music education is a way of life. People go out into the world with a specific calling just waiting for them to guide towards a brighter future. It may come instantly for some, but others it will take awhile. Sometimes people are surrounded by music their entire life which can influence them to follow in their family members footsteps. However, others, including myself, have wanted to go out into the world…

Introduction The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the writing of Giorgio Agamben as it relates to the course theme in regard to the placement of the body in contemporary social theory. More specifically this paper will address Agamben’s writing of Sovereign Power and Bare Life and the distinction between the natural being and the legal existence of a person. First in Part I, I will provide a summary of Sovereign Power and Bare Life, and identify Agamben 's central thesis. In Part…