Class consciousness

and male privilege. In her article, McIntosh mentions that much of her male colleagues’ oppressiveness was unconscious (p. 87). Considering this author also mentions that unearned privilege is harmful for men’s development, the idea that a man’s consciousness is not fully developed due to such a narrow world view can be considered. Now this theory is not to say that people that are privileged are undeveloped or less developed than those that do not experience privilege; but from my own…

Nagel revolves around the importance of subjective character. Nagel is a firm believer in how consciousness is what makes something what it is (not including inanimate things). It is what makes a human a human and a bat a bat. This consciousness is not one that can be altered. As human beings, we understand a vast amount of knowledge, and this knowledge we can only put forth an experience that we presume a bat is having…

Your insightful discussion lead me to refresh my knowledge about William James. I had forgotten that he believed that our consciousness was a continuous and unending stream of thoughts, feelings, images, ideas, sensations, conceptions, and emotions that appear before our conscious awareness and then pass away. The most significant role of this stream was selecting what to pay attention to (Carreira, 2013). The visual image of a stream could be another way to explain attention, concentration…

In the poem "I felt A Funeral In My Brain", there are many different ways to interpret the meaning of this poem. It can be assumed that the speaker is going through a very traumatic event in her life. The funeral going on in her head was very traumatic for the speaker, and she did not like it at all. The poem could be the metaphor for the traumatic event. It is also possible that the speaker just has a really bad headache and wanted to write about it. And it can be assumed the speaker was not…

not everyone is who they seem, which is a part of what the psychoanalytic criticism explores, and Gatsby’s actions and words can be broken down and further analyzed into something deeper. Freud states that although everyone has three levels of consciousness, they operate through their unconscious motives the most. For example, Gatsby’s main motives are shame, grief, denial, and fear. Gatsby’s sumptuous displays of wealth actually showcase a defence…

Argument In Marcuse’s time, and perhaps much more so in current times, technological rationality has been the source of alienation. It maintains an extreme dependence on machines and efficiency. People want to go home to their televisions and computers, thus most of their leisure time is taken over by technology, even the majority of non leisure time is subsumed by portable technics (i.e.,handheld devices and cell phones). This has isolated humans into their private sphere to pursue their own…

“Pay attention!” is snapped at the 8th grade boy in Montana, the young taekwondo student in Korea, the inattentive boyfriend in Brazil, the crime investigator in France. This phrase can be utilized and interpreted in a myriad of ways, so how can one know what is truly meant by the word attention? According to Jon Kabat-Zinn, attention can be broken into two actions of cognition – focusing and monitoring. The former targets the mind’s ability to focus on a single idea, emotion, or phenomenon…

to meet again with Judy Jones, the daughter of the rich club member who had caused him to up and quit his job many years before. The importance of money and status symbols show through Dexter at this point, and his increasing awareness and self-consciousness becomes apparent as indicated by his inner monologues. He takes in Judy’s elaborate house in detail, saying it “was the finest house on Lake Erminie,” the house representing the aristocracy of the Jones family and all that he was not from…

to be a Homo sapiens. But he is not a human and that makes him unfamiliar to the society thus uncanny. However, the signification of the uncanny is not relevant to his consciousness but his physiognomy. Freud has represented uncanny to be the “province of [a] kind” which “belongs…

Television shows play a huge part is children’s material culture. Growing up I can remember the countless times I was glued to spot in front of the television completely unaware of my surroundings, but engrossed in what I was watching on the screen. As time goes on i see a trend throughout every generation as new show are created the cycle continues. I see this with my sibling, nieces and nephews and even children I babysit. A new show I have recently become intrigued by is known as Peppa Pig.…