Carl Van Vechten

Sigmund Freud and Classical Psychoanalysis Background Sigmund Freud is the creator of Classical psychoanalysis. He was born in 1856 and died in 1939 (Cloninger, 2013). Freud’s work extended over the period of 45 years (Murdock, 2013). His work is considered to have an enormous influence on the profession of counseling throughout history of counseling and up until current counseling context (Murdock, 2013). Thus most of the theories major theories today about human behavior can be seen as…

My world is called Dreamtopia. It is called this because dream means, an unrealistic fantasy, and the suffix –topia means, landscapes. So together Dreamtopia means, an unrealistic fantasy landscape, which is just what my world is. In Dreamtopia there anything you can imagine and you can have anything you want, that is what makes it unrealistic. As I continue I will tell you about the rules, rulers, weather, technology, and a few other facts about this world. The rules for Dreamtopia are: always…

In Kendra Cherry’s article titled Dream Interpretation: What Do Dreams Mean she explores the varying theories behind what meanings dreams could possibly have and their interpretation according to experts in the field of psychology and cognitive studies. Cherry being a psychologist, supports the theory that it is likely dreams have a subconscious meaning. Many people share the belief their dreams have some sort of unknown meaning or an underlying message while others are skeptical. Some claim…

Overview of Karen Horney's and Erich Fromm’s Psychoanalytic Social Theory Psychoanalytic theory according to Karen Horney's psychoanalytic is about the cultural and social conditions, it began during childhood time, and she believe it has a significant effect on one’s personality. Similar with many other psychoanalysis, Horney also believe a lot of Sigmund’s observations and his finding, but she objected to most of his interpretations, including his notions on feminine psychology (Theories of…

According to Carl Jung in his essay, Psychology and Literature, “psychology being the study of psychic processes can be brought to bear upon the study of literature, for it is the human psyche from which sciences and arts originate”(Ross). These lines clearly hint that literature and psychology are very much related to each other. Literature deals with the deeper aspects of human life that can be analyzed through psychoanalysis (Freud 11). Literature is the product of mind and Psychology is the…

Any time a person is dreaming and she or he understands their dreaming it's called a lucid dream. When a strange dream makes a person stop and question reality is when it typically occurs. Lucid dreaming has an interesting aspect to it, and it's the ability to regulate the dream and make some other reality in the dream state, which is the reason why lots of people learn the fundamental lucid dreaming steps. A lot of cultures from ancient times took lucid dreaming very seriously. For instance,…

PSYCHODYNAMIC. Throughout this assignment I will be discussing the theorists, including sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson. I will also be discussing their theories and stages that they feel that we all should go though. Both of the theories use psychodynamic approaches which means that the mind is constantly active. The psychodynamic approach includes all the theories in psychology that see human functioning based upon the interaction of drives and forces within the person, particularly…

In which way are the studies carried out by Adorno (1950) et al. and Allum (2011) linked? The reason why this is an interesting question is that it provides a measure of how much Adorno's studies have profoundly influenced not only the sociology of his time and the classical studies, but are still capable of provoking a reflection that can find an expressive space in the contemporary psychosocial context. Allum has in fact used part of Adorno’s theory to explain why people believe in…

Freudianism Theory in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Sigmund Freud created the idea of the ‘psychologically divided self’, describing how there were three parts to the mind: the id, the ego, and the super-ego. Freud states how humans have the “The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in a man… it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture”(Freud 49). The ‘id’ represents a human’s primitive component of their mind, the ‘ego’ is where human’s mind make the…

In The Personal and the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung details a variety of encounters with his patients in order to forward his psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious. Jung argues that the unconscious exists as a space of ongoing psychic activity outside of rational will and human agency; the unconscious will inevitably produce symbolic images separate from contingently formulated thoughts and feelings. In synthesizing the messy overlap of polarized symbols present in the personal…