Carl Van Vechten

The human psyche has long been a mystery to scholars and philosophers alike. Long working to analyze the cognitive process, scholars strive to make sense of human actions. Psychoanalytic theory, popularized by Sigmund Freud through his works, The Uncanny and Beyond the Pleasure Principle, focuses on gaining deeper understanding of human behavior on the psychological level. In terms of literary criticism, psychoanalysis provides a way to analyze where a character’s actions stem from and thus…

Sigmund Freud: The Structure of the Unconscious For many years, mankind has lived life with no perception of understanding the true meaning of living. The concept of our existence is to be, but what is to remain between the moments of life and death? In Sigmund Freud’s The Structure of the Unconscious, he outlines the mental capacity an individual has to be aware of, in order to mature and grow. The experiences we face make us who we are and coherently, leaves a lesson for a later time. In the…

The First Woman CEO Katherine Graham is known as one of the most influential women ever in business. She was the first woman CEO in the U.S. taking over the position at the Washington Post previously held by her husband. Graham, however, is most known for her outstanding coverage of the Watergate scandal. This leadership she showed in these two aspects of her career, gave many other women the courage to pursue careers outside of being a housewife. Katherine Graham was so influential in fact, she…

“I Am Not a Crook” Political leaders of the United States were once idolized. However, the publishing of the Pentagon Papers and the Vietnam War made the public wary of their government’s internal motives. In 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters, who were linked to President Richard M. Nixon. The public’s opinion of a corrupt government was solidified. Politics and journalism changed forever. The Watergate Scandal led to government reform,…

instructions, words, and their derivatives…Matters are different in the dream state. In the dream state, affects, emotions, actions, interactions, emergent events, and the possible and the impossible are embodied in dream sequences and scenarios” (van d. D., 1996, p. 260). Because of this trade of brain dominance, new pathways are created in the brain that allow for greater thought. It is a method of unconscious problem…

Predecessor to the 80’s cult classic, The Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal was legendary puppeteer Jim Henson’s first attempt at creating a fantasy motion picture filmed entirely with intricate animatronics and puppets. The film is complete with heroes, villains and the other main elements of fantastical narratives as described by Russian scholar and folklorist Vladimir Propp in his breakthrough work, Morphology of the Folktale, which states that there is a sequence of 31 functions — certain actions…

The screenplay, written by William Goldman based on the book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, gives the audience a first-hand account of their investigation. Furthermore, the style of the filmmaking is drastically different from Pakula’s The Parallax View, the scenery and direction are realistic and documentary-like…

Sigmund Freud developed a model of the mind in which he described the aspects of the mind’s structure and function. Freud uses an example of an iceberg to correlate with the levels of the mind. On the surface is consciousness or the tip of the iceberg. This consists of thoughts and memories that are derived from meaningful thinking and conscious understanding. Below the surface and arguably the most significant region is the unconscious. This contains the processes that are thought to be the…

Introduction This assignment is written about Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory of development and Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory of development. They both believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages but their theories have different explanations. Outline of Freud's psychosexual theory of development According to Freud the sexual life begins with the birth and the sexual life comprises the function of obtaining pleasure from areas of the body. In his theory of…

Carl Jung, the pioneer of analytical psychology, explains complex, a core pattern of emotions, and perceptions in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme (Shultz and Shultz, 2009). Unlike what Carl Jung believed, collective unconscious might also create complexes, such as phobia, the irrational fear, through inheriting instinct. Anyhow, once the complex is fixed, a person starts to have a certain paradigm about the certain theme. Therefore, complexes could be interpreted as a…