Carl Van Vechten

Freud’s Greatest Accomplishments Although many of Freud’s theories are no longer used today due to controversies, he made a great impact on psychology. His work helped form our views on childhood, personality and sexuality. Freud left such a great impact on psychology that there is a school of thought that developed from his work, known as psychoanalysis. Many other great thinkers were influenced by Freud’s theories, while others opposed his views. Some of Freud’s greatest accomplishments and…

Sigmund Freud wasn’t the man all his followers think he was, and he didn’t contribute to psychology as everyone thinks either. Freud was a drug addict who was also obsessed with sexual topics. Sigmund Freud sexually abused his patients into getting them to “remember repressed memories,” and he recorded all of his experiments. He saw self-control and guilt as mental illness, and called free will and religion “the universal obsessional neurosis” and “mass delusion”.2 To Sigmund Freud the whole…

In the world today, there are over 3 million slaves, and one woman is trying her hardest to save each and every one. Tami Hochalter has been risking her own life to save other’s lives by working with a non-profit organization that rescues women and children who were forced into human trafficking. There are three pieces of criteria a person must meet to receive a Giraffe Award. The criteria include: the person must take a significant risk, it must be done out of caring, and the person must go…

A natural satisfaction is always wrought when anyone fully accomplishes something that they set out to do. The ending to The Alchemist was a very fulfilling conclusion featuring the two-part completion of Santiago’s Personal Legend and featuring a comical instance of irony leading up to the final achievement of his search for his treasure that has more than just a humorous tone, reiterating the lessons Santiago has learned from the inner transformation of alchemy. Santiago’s viewing of the…

The psychoanalytic theory mainly focuses on how the unconscious mind influences behavior and thoughts. Emphasis is placed on previous childhood experiences and events and how they may have influence on the adult mind and actions. The psychoanalytic theory also proposes that people are innately bad natured. While I do agree that childhood experiences and traumas can most definitely affect the adult psyche, I don't believe that childhood experiences are the end-all, be-all of adult behaviors and…

The word archetype comes from a greek word “archein,” which means old, original, or patterns. Carl Gustav Jung created the twelve archetypes of the human psyche. “Archetypes represent fundamental human motifs of our experience as we evolved; consequentially, they evoke deep emotions.” (Golden). Numerous people are put into categories and those categories define who you are. The life experiences and events that unfolded, have crafted me into a foolish, leading, and a compassionate person. The…

When someone hears the word dream, what words come to their mind? It might be a hope, a trance, or even a wonder. I think of the word ambition. A dream to me is something that I look forward to and it keeps me moving forward to achieve a major goal in my life. Dreams are different in each perspective, but some try to crush others’ dreams. Some think their dreams are more valuable than others. However, who’s to say someone’s dreams are worthless? No one should, but unfortunately that is not the…

Glen Mills is arguably the most popular sprinting coach in the world. He currently is the coach of the two fastest Jamaicans in the world; Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake. Both Blake and Bolt rave about coach mills, calling him their “father figure, a friend and a mentor”. Jamaica has totalled more than 100 world and Olympic sprinting medals under his stewardship. Seventy-one medals at the IAAF World Championships and thirty-three at Olympic competitions a tally that continues to rise. Nineteen of…

After a long and exhausting day, many of us look forward to the magical and blessful thing called sleep. While we are sleeping, we start to dream, whether it is a wonderful and happy fantasyland where you can dance in a field of crispy bacon or a horrible and terrifying nightmare such as giving a speech in front of a huge audience. Either way, haven’t you ever wondered what those dreams mean and why they happen? Well, today I will be informing you about the analysis of a dream, but more…

Jamaican Usain Bolt is a legend in the Olympics who has been called the “fastest man alive”(besides the flash) and has been smashing world records since the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. Usain Bolt became the first man to set the record in the 100 meter dash and 200 meter dash in one season of the olympics. At the 2012 games in London he ran the 100 meter dash in 9.63 seconds putting him in first. He also won the 4 by 100 and the 200. In the 2016 games he won the same three events making…