Carl Van Vechten

Word associations consist of reading words and the person must respond with the first word that comes to mind. I played a version of word association during elementary school following the basic rule but never viewed it as a psychodynamic therapy. This experience, however, was the first time I viewed word association in a therapeutic format. I did not know what to expect and did not know what type of meaning word association gives. I was hesitant at the beginning of the process because word…

Sigmund Freud suggests that one’s psychodynamic complex directs his conduct in the world (Freud). The protagonist in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is precisely a character whose actions and thoughts are guided by a sophisticated psychodynamic complex. Hamlet’s personality development is a manifest of the Oedipus complex because his conduct reveals the impact of Oedipus complex in human’s unconsciousness. I will first examine how Oedipus complex shapes Hamlet’s personality development by drawing…

In the book, The Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, each character express the three main parts of Freud’s theory. The ID is root of what each person wants. The ID is like a child that has so sense of conscience. The SuperEgo is the holding of all socially imposed behavior. The SuperEgo is taught through parental instruction. Finally, the Ego is the balance between the ID and the SuperEgo; it is reality. The novel, The Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, can be read using…

Freud's produced a psychodynamic hypothesis that identity creates through cognizant and oblivious. The most vital idea of this hypothesis is that the cognizant and oblivious are frequently clashes. Life is a tradeoff including dynamic adjust of different strengths. The five phases of improvement comprise of first the oral stage where nervousness creates accordingly of holding sustenance. The second being butt-centric stage where uneasiness emerges because of wrong can preparing. The third,…

Id, Ego, Superego Project Essay Per Sigmund Freud, author of the psychoanalytic theory and designer of the tripartite personality, the key to a healthy personality is a balance between the id, the ego, and the superego. When this prompt was first presented, it seemed obvious that a balance scale, similar to the scales of justice, would be the perfect artistic representation of the unique relationship between the id, ego, and superego. Furthermore, the prompt called for quotes to express the…

Democratic National Committee headquarters at the hotel Watergate who was caught and was carrying thirty-five hundred dollars’ worth of high surveillance equipment, after this incident was released to the public two tenacious reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein question Nixon connection to this case. This inquisition would reveal the astonishing secret, that…

The Intelligence Committee is a select committee; it specializes in, and is responsible for, the oversight of intelligence activities and programs of the United States (GovTrack). Their prerogative is to ensure that the intelligence activities of the United States are within constitutional law. In order to execute and enforce this objective, they propose legislation and provide legislative oversight. Due to its importance, this committee is present in both the House and Senate (GovTrack). The…

‘Why do we dream?’ has been one of the questions that psychologists are forever trying to resolve. Researchers had come up with many theories as of why dream occurs, and one of the common theories stated that dreams might reflect human subconscious thoughts. Thus the aim of this paper is to investigate the extent to which dream represents the human subconscious. This paper was written mainly from researches on the Internet. It covered a wide range of resources such as website, research papers,…

The psychoanalytic approach is the idea of how personality relates to the actions of the unconscious thoughts and motives. Sigmund Freud used this technique to develop his multiple stages and structures theories on the unconscious. On the other hand, the psychodynamic approach is the modern version of the psychoanalytic approach. This approach views personality on the unconscious and the importance of the childhood experience stage. Neo-Freudians used this technique with a basis of Freud's ideas…

Abebe Bikila was born in a small village called Jato in Ethiopia sometime on August 7, 1932. Abebe was born in a poor family. To support his family, young Bikila joined the Imperial Bodyguard Squad of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. At the work, Bikila tries to earn as much as money he could to help his family. One day Abebe was running for fun and Swedish Coach, Onni Niskanen recognized Bikila’s athletic talent when he was sent to a government camp. Abebe Bikila began to prepare for the…