Carl Van Vechten

According to Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia” the path of both mourning and melancholia has a similar starting point. With the same influence of the loss of a loved one or a something representing a loved one that would replace the loss, the similarity ends and the differences begins. Most importantly, the ending of both mourning and melancholia does come to a full cycle (at lease in all cases of mourning and in most cases for melancholia) by rejoining the community. When analyzing the mental…

The complex is a central pattern of memories, emotions, wishes and perceptions located in the personal unconscious. It appears inform of organized power, theme or status. It is fundamentally a psychoanalytic term found extensively in the works of Carl Jung. According to Jung, the personal unconscious was characterized by complexes. In Jung 's system, Complexes are emotion-laden themes from an individual’s life. For example, if a person had a leg amputation when they were children, their life…

Although the word “Watergate” directly refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C., it is an umbrella term used to describe a series of complex political events and scandals between the years 1972 and 1974. These events started when Richard Nixon ran for reelection (“Watergate”). In such a harsh political climate, a forceful presidential campaign seemed essential to the president and some of his key advisers. Their aggressive tactics included what turned out to be illegal espionage. In May…

On the surface, psychoanalysis can be defined as “a system of psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association” (GOOGLE). As a primary component of the psychoanalysis movement, Sigmund Freud encompasses theories regarding dream interpretation in order to reveal…

The Conscious and Unconscious Minds According to “The Allegory of the Cave,” “ The Oedipus Complex,” and “ The Personal and the Collective Unconscious,” people 's behavior in society originates in the conscious and unconscious minds. Different people have different kinds of personalities which is caused by different types of education, environments, cultures and experiences. These elements strongly influence how they regard the world, and influence how their conscious mind work.…

deems unworthy. To gain a complete understanding of Jenny’s character and the affects she has on the narrator, A Jungian analysis of this poem is required. In the Jungian analysis of a character, there are three archetypes that must be considered. Carl Jung believed that…

For as long as human beings have been able to reflect on their own consciousness, there has been a prevailing interest with one of the most mysterious activities of the mind: the formation of dreams. From ancient cultures across the world to modern psychologists, humans have always wondered about the origin of dreams. However a more recent development in the study of dreams has been the question of why dreams occur, rather than how they 're formed. The two major theories involving dreams are…

After much reading and re-exploring the various theories one person remained constant for this application, Sigmund Freud. Being a fan of Carl Jung and finding disappointment in Freud for ending their friendship due to differences of theory. Then, the uncomfortableness of Freud’s thoughts about the psychosexual stages of children gave cause for rethinking possible biasing due to personal experiences. Therefore, the query within is: How can a professional of the MIND, personality, and behavior…

concept: The Oedipus Complex, and Carl Jung’s thesis of transference. Freud’s theory states that a young child’s sexual development begins when the child loves the parent of the opposite sex, and hates the parent of the same gender (Freud 918). Freud believes this is a natural way of life, and will over time become repressed; however, when a person does not associate with the disappearance of these thoughts, the patient will become neurotic (Freud 918). Similarly, Carl Jung defined transference…

like Dexter Morgan, the anti-hero? The answer is yes because secretly they are representations of our own unconscious. Whether we want to admit it or not these “anti-hero” characters that show up so often in mainstream media indirectly help us through Carl G. Jung’s process of individuation. This process has helped many sift through their dreams to get to the center of their own…