Carl Van Vechten

essay I will be analyzing the Brothers Grimms’ version of “Little Red Riding Hood” in conversation with “A Second Gaze at Little Red Riding Hood’s Trials and Tribulations” by Jack Zipes, an online article explaining the background of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung in order to set the stage for why critics believe sexual images are present within old fairytales, and I will also analyze one image from Gustave Doré to show that the original fairytales are layered tales in which have hidden symbols and…

The term myth in the sacred scriptures has been unclear in recent times. In the West we are thought to understand myth as associated with fictional stories like the Greek Gods but scholars here reject the view that myth is to be understood as prescientific error and have looked at its complex nature and functions. Myth tells a story, with moral and singular meaning, they also serve as the community’s key and helps explain the natural order of the community’s behavior. The proper definition of…

MBTI Assessment Outcomes Emotional intelligence is a key component in team cohesion. Emotional intelligence is defined by Thompson as, “The ability to recognize emotions in ourselves and others and to use emotional knowledge in a productive fashion” (2015, p.114). Through the study of our own personal preference and those of our peers, we are better able to assimilate and be more effective teams. By understanding basic personality tendencies, individuals can more effectively adapt and adjust…

The neurological model is the predominant view of mental functioning in modern times. Whatever the causes for this attitude, valuable approaches towards the mind have been abandoned. Despite differing in distinct ways, these philosophical psychologies agree that the neurological approach is too reductive. Several important aspects of the mind are left out in the neurological approach. This paper will analyze the psychological views of Freud, Jung and Laing. Their views on the nature of the mind,…

Among the Red Guns is a poem written by Carl Sandburg that portrays a speaker describing details of war. However, who the speaker is and what gender they are is made unclear throughout the poem. Notable in this poem is that the speaker continues to use the phrase, “dreams go on.” Sandburg uses literary devices such as imagery, tone, and repetition to help illustrate and provide information about war and its difficult aspects. Most importantly, Sandburg utilizes these literary devices in order…

under his belt focused mainly on an individual’s unconscious state of mind. Freud was a psychologist, physiologist and medical doctor. He created and lived by psychoanalysis. He believed people live the events of their unconscious on a daily basis. Carl Jung the founder of analytical psychology, which is the study of psychoanalytic and individual psyche; similarly to Freud, Jung studies mainly focuses on the unconscious. Their beliefs and ideas of what someone’s unconscious consist of overlap.…

During ‘prescientific days’ dreams were considered a ‘manifestation’ of a ‘higher power’. The introduction of psychology, the scientific study of our mind, rejects and replaces this interpretation with many others. Freud lists 4 distinct interpretations. The first is his own interpretation. His states that dreams are a subconscious manifestation of our desires. He explores and supports this interpretation throughout this paper. The second states that dreams are a form of spiritual liberation…

Dreaming is one of the hardest subjects to study, making almost every known fact unprovable. This means for every theory about dreaming, it is up to the dreamer to draw their own conclusions. With that being said, it doesn’t mean that we know nothing about dreams, in fact, we study dreams just about every day even without knowing it. You and I dream every night, whisked away to another world where anything is possible. But what if I told you that you make up the rules in that world and can…

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.…