DREAM Act

Have you ever done something bizarre, and wondered what your motives were? Has there ever been a time where you’ve done something but your reasons were much deeper than you could understand? This is the result of your unconscious hard at work. The unconscious mind holds the secrets that create our outer personality and drive our actions, the secrets that we cannot harness voluntarily. Psychologist Joseph Campbell describes how the unconscious mind plays a huge role in mythology and culture, two…

says to himself, “Never had I endured such suffering and remorse, yet could there have been the faintest doubt when I ran out from my lodging that I should turn back half-way”(Dostoevsky,165). The Underground Man experiences the sensation during the act of throwing his stuff on and running out the door. If Liza were to actually be outside when he opened the door, I think he would have changed his mind and told her to leave. This is yet another example we see that supports the idea of the…

---Self Assessment and Improvement Action Plan I began to know myself better, a 15-year old girl as a result of registering in this course. I worked through my 7th grade in China and came last year to attend the 9th grade in the States. The change is enormous as well as the challenge. Fortunately I had this opportunity of learning psychology. Below is by self assessment and improvement action plan. Growing up as the only child in a family full of love and sympathy I feel happy and content…

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 important feature in psychoanalytic theory is the concept of the unconscious. Freud denotes in his essay “Psychoanalysis” (1963): “It was a triumph for the interpretative art of psychoanalysis when it succeeded in demonstrating that certain common mental acts of normal people, for which…

all night, telling itself stories”. In other words people are surrounded by stories and pictures all over the day. Even when it seems that the brain has a break during the night, it still produces pictures, processed stories and changes it into dreams. Stories are told all the time and people are not even aware of that. When people ask how the last weekend was, the answer will probably be a story. Storytelling includes so many vital abilities such as connecting people, develop awareness,…

obstacles that prevent them from acquiring the results of these ambitions even if they strive to achieve it. The interesting thing is that many of these people risk their lives to obtain the fruits that they are supposed to gather from their tree of dreams and desires with the intention of achieving a better life and thus escape from their problems, vicissitudes, and difficulties. There are two themes that I notice in the novel “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez where people had or still…

The interpretation of dreams is an arduous task in which the therapist must overcome the unconscious "resistance" of the subject, who censures his trauma as a defense against the anxiety that would cause the evocation of it. Another key aspect of psychoanalytic therapy is the…

Destinee Beltran “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world,” Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman not only gave great advice and words of wisdom, but she accomplished many amazing things as well. Harriet Tubman was born as Ross, in Dorchester County Maryland in the year 1822. Also called Minty Ross when she was young, at just five years of age, she was hired to do child…

{No intro yet or conclusion}Psychological criticism is a method in which reading as dictated by Freud is applied to analyse texts, as Freud argues that the main argument to this theory is that texts such as dreams present unconscious desires of the author. Ursula K. Le. Guin is best known “for inventing fantasy worlds and uncommon experiences in such a way that readers can see themselves in the stories’ reflections,” as X.J Kennedy and Dana Gioia pointed out. Le. Guin demonstrates this in “The…

A dreamer is a person who dreams and or has many great ideas. A DACAmented Dreamer is a foreign born undocumented child who has many hopes and dreams and is protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Act. According to the U. S citizenship and Immigration Services, In the U. S there are 136,419 DACAmented dreamers approved. On June 15, 2012, President Obama authorized the DACA act. This act allowed a working permit for all undocumented kids. There were many advantages and gains for…