Castration

“The Revenant” is filled with many kinds of violence that humans can do to each other- murder, rape, scalping, and castration. It may be hard to watch on the big screen, but there is a point to all this violence in this movie. Director wants the viewer to start to distinguish when violence is appropriate and when it crosses over the line and becomes inappropriate and unnecessary…

extremely expensive. It is to understand that a crime cannot remain unpunished, but a civilized society should be able to find other ways as The Capital Punishment. For example, a derogatory crime such as a sex offenders and pedophile, chemical castration, could be an alternative. Life Sentence is less costly; the criminal is removing from the society, so his crime. “Death-Row Inmates Prefer Death to Life. (ABC) More death-row inmates have been volunteering for their executions: Between 1993…

kill their own father, such as in the Titanomachy where Zeus and his siblings fight against, their father, Chronos and his siblings (Liotta, 2014). This however, is more similar to Freud’s Fraternal complex where primal fantasies such as incest and castration is present (Liotta, 2014). As evident in several myths, incest is frequently prevalent. Perhaps the authors and characters of the myths had the unconscious desire for incest much like Freud…

From searing a brand on their rear end, castration, and even the removal of their horns without any numbing or painkillers. These cattle also must stay outside for many months in muddy, filthy and even possibly freezing conditions. Also the use of “grass-raised” on labels and packages is very misleading…

The main concepts of the psychodynamic perspective is the idea of the unconscious and the level in which the unconscious influences our behaviour. It takes a very deterministic approach in that all behaviour is predetermined and out of our control. Freud (1915) first introduced the idea of the conscious, and split it into the conscious and unconscious. He compared the concept to an iceberg, the unconscious being a complex; much grander selection of thoughts and feelings. An individual, according…

The Currency That Was Slavery The Colonial Laws of 1662-1769 were structured and written at a time in which slaves were brought to Virginia to establish the newly forming tobacco industry. These laws were made to counter arising problems of what the churchwardens saw as sexual misconduct and a possible disruption of the structure of slavery. Through the detailed regulations against any fornication involving members of the indigenous race, it is clear to see that the Colonial Laws were…

addresses sexual desire and its unknown origin, by creating a fantasy of the perfect moment where a seducer and the seduced may meet and share moments of pleasure ‘on time’. Unalike pornography, horror explores sexual difference through the fantasy of castration, which usually occurs when the female character is attacked as she is about to meet or become intimate with her boyfriend/lover. It additionally unravels the anxiety of not being ready, events transpiring ‘too early’. Different yet…

As pertaining to the case of Daniel Holtzclaw, it is difficult to create an understanding of his criminal behavior. Chances are, that the biological theories explain is behavior, as biochemical compositions in his brain may have influenced his behavior. Also, some people believe that his former activities as football player may have contributed to biological deficiencies. Due to the physical nature of the sport (head injuries etc.) football players are at greater risk to develop chronic trauma…

In 2001, Michael Haneke directed a film called, The Piano Teacher. Haneke’s view, as conveyed to the viewer, is not to rail against pornography, per se, but to rail against its impact as generated by a capitalist-patriarchal society. This stems from a similar modality of thinking introduced by Linda Williams in 1989, in which she “...moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does…” (Slade 656). Haneke’s method is…

brought up 40 hits while in the second word search on EBSCOhost the words typed in the search bar were “Psychopaths in the courtroom” that pulled up a total of 383 hits. In the final search through EBSCOhost the words to be searched were “Psychopath castration” that popped up 665 hits. Each search consisted of scholarly “peer reviewed” articles that were full text, all being narrowed down to after the year 2006 to 2016. Galileo was a very useful resource in gathering information for my topics…