Carl Van Vechten

Can the psychoanalytical/dynamic model of psychology, specifically Freud's intensive study of consciousness and subliminal mind be used to explain the behaviors and actions of an individual? Psychodynamic theory, as viewed by in today's psychology, focus mainly on how personality is an indirect and direct product of conscious and subliminal influence, such as desires or beliefs one has. Sigmund Freud is thought to be one of the true pioneers of this model, proposed that personality is a result…

Erikson was very influenced by Sigmund Freud and looked up to him immensely. Erikson based his own psychosocial theory closely off of Freuds five psychosexual stages but instead he established a different more accepted concept. Erikson believed humans go through eight psychosocial stages and that they develop continuously throughout their lives rather than their personality be set by age five as Freud believed. He believed that each stage presented a crisis that must be overcome before one can…

In 1798 a well-known poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge published his poem The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. The poem was contained in a poem collage by Coleridge and William Wordsworth called the Lyrical Ballads. Coleridge is known for the Romantic influence in his writings: “Coleridge achieved wonder by the frank violation of natural laws, impressing upon readers a sense of occult powers and unknown modes of being” (“The Romantic Period: Topics.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature).…

was the founder of psychoanalysis and Carl Rogers who founded the humanistic approach. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was a physician who specialized in neurology and eventually devoted his life to the treatment of mental disorders using a procedure he developed called psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis states that all behaviour is driven from the unconscious mind and early childhood experiences, this approach brings up emotions from the hidden mind for analysis. (Carl Rogers (1902-1987) was a…

Foucault and Freud - two main thinkers, although Freud was basically a neu- rologist contributed greatly to mankind in understanding mental process of hu- mans. Michael Foucault was a homosexual thinker who had theories on the power relations between the various factions in society, about the relationship between knowledge and power and about a way of thinking that questioned a lot of assumptions or thoughts that are considered to be obvious or self-evident. Sigmund Freud is consid-ered the…

William Faulkner wrote The Sound and the Fury in the early twentieth century, soon after Sigmund Freud’s study of the human unconscious mind, psychoanalysis, had started to become popular. It is rather clear that his theories of the unconscious mind had a strong influence on Faulkner while he was writing this novel. We will see this through the main characters whose point of view the first three chapters are told from; Benjy, Quentin, and Jason. There are even some other Freudian influences on…

Inception (2010) excoriates the perplexity of reality due to the human psyche’s reliance on our empirical senses when discerning reality from illusion. Nolan achieves this via the fabrication of dreams and memories; a concept that is heavily reliant on visualisation. During the exposition and Ariadne’s “first lesson in shared dreaming”, Ariadne is oblivious to the supposed dream world in which she was residing in until Cobb enquires with the imperative “Think about it […] How did you get here?”.…

The written texts, “Diagnosing and Treating the Ophelia Syndrome” and “The Allegory of the Cave,” express the abilities to gain knowledge and to think as an individual. “Diagnosing and Treating the Ophelia Syndrome” describes a psychological disorder that disables a person to create their own opinions. Being able to control your own ideas and opinions is important to form one’s own identity. “The Allegory of the Cave” uses symbolism to describe a theory about two different types of knowledge. In…

Auther Asa Berger, in his renowned book entitled “Media Analysis Technique” has discussed critically Sigmund Freud Psychoanalysis with reference of different critics in which Freud’s theory of Psychoanalysis i.e. unconscious, sexuality, The Oedipal complex, Myth, Id, Ego and Superego, symbols, defense mechanisms, dream, condensation and displacement, aggression and guilt have been discussed with practical examples. Let’s explore each psychoanalytical component: A) Unconscious: The paramount…

To say that Sigmund Freud has not been overwhelmingly influential in the world of psychology would be untrue. His claim to fame and influence on psychology is based on his development of the psychoanalytic theory and theory of the unconscious. Thanks to Freud, psychoanalytic theory and therapy has evolved over the past century and is still taught today. Freud was a free thinker and was the first person to apply deterministic scientific principles to human behavior and psyche. What this means is…