Carl Sagan

The psychodynamic approach is spilt into tow parts firstly the basic idea that moral behaviour is controlled by the superego. The superego is the part of the personality that comprises that conscience and the ego-ideal. The conscience represents the punishing parent and the egoideal represents the rewarding parent. Therefore Freud maintains that our moral values are acquired in response to the development of the superego which is the second part. It was Freud's theory each part of the superego…

On August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon became the first President to resign from his position. He was facing impeachment and criminal trial for the Watergate Scandal. With no where to turn and his options run out, Nixon gave his last speech as President, where he resigned and apologized to the nation. Nixon’s resignation speech does not meet the expectations of a fitting response, as defined by Lloyd Bitzer, for the rhetorical situation he was in following the Watergate scandal. Nixon…

An In-Depth Analysis of Lord of the Flies through the Freudian Theory Around the time of World War II, a theory by Sigmund Freud emerged stating that the human psyche contains the psychic apparatus, otherwise known as the id, superego, and ego. Furthermore, the id, superego, and ego can be categorized based off of their different principles. The id is associated with the pleasure principle, the superego with the morality principle, and the ego with the reality principle. Interestingly enough,…

The Alchemist: Dreams Dreams are the theme that ties together the whole significance of omens and Personal Legends in The Alchemist. Santiago, the main character, is a boy shepherd who is constantly questioning himself as to what his purpose in life is and how he can fulfill it. Throughout the book, he learns that dreams are indications of his own Personal Legend, or inner desire. The author’s message about dreams is that it takes much diligence and desire to fulfill them but it is all very…

Dreams, I myself was never really interested in my own dreams until one night not too long ago I woke up with that unmistakable anxious feeling that one has after experiencing an unpleasant dream. It made me realize that I don’t talk about my dreams the good or the bad to anyone. Neither do most other people. That is because we as sophisticated adults tend to act as if bad dreams or any dreams at all are reserved for small children. Almost as if dreams were an unspoken taboo. However, dreams are…

I believe that personality is a trait that determines who you are as a person. Many Psychology theorists such as Dr. Sigmund Freud, Dr. Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Raymond B. Cattell and Hans J. Eysenck, Karen Horney, and David Buss believe that support my argument for the personality theory. But theorists like Gordon Allport and Erik Erikson did not support my argument. Their concepts have shaped my view of personality development into what it is today. But based on their theories and my personal…

inherently good and that humans have the capacity to grow and change motivates individuals to strive for perfection within themselves and society contrasts the psychodynamic theorist’s idea that personality is a reflection of unconscious conflicts. Carl Rogers speculated that human personality is influenced by their biological potential in the sense that humans develop into what they are capable of, known as the actualization tendency. In addition, the self actualization tendency is the human…

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein were the two major journalists during the Watergate trial who proved Nixon to be involved in the grand scheme. This caused them to become instantly well-known across the world. They approached the situation in a way that no other journalist…

correct decisions. Especially in the realm of world literature, countries such as Austria and Switzerland have given us a ton of information regarding dream theory. Perhaps two of the most renowned scholars in the form of dreaming were Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Sigmund Freud’s most famous work regarding dreaming was his work, The Interpretation of Dreams. In the text, Freud focuses on recognizing the disparities between the conscious and the unconscious mind, along with connecting those…

Theories of Dreaming In the fifth chapter of our textbook Psychology: Themes and Variations, Weiten discusses various topics of consciousness; one of which includes the world of dreams. He begins with the contents of dreams and goes into different areas of what the unconscious mind dreams. There are common themes that were reported in a study from college students. Weiten brings up that our dreams are influenced by what is happening in our day to day lives, or by different stimuli that would be…