Eros

The B-52s, ‘Love Shack’ played through the Mustang’s speakers, and although upbeat, the lyrics sent a nervous shiver throughout Tom’s tense body. After his explosive outburst in the locker room the day before, he felt ready to try a second date, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t anxious. In terms of a sexual relationship, he still wasn’t sure how far he was prepared to go with Booker, and the nagging uncertainty played havoc with both his conscious and unconscious mind. The previous night, he’d…

impact on Fernanda, mentally she accepted that behavior as well since her mother never complained Drive or instinct Theory- The theory that proposes that human behavior is motivated by instinct: Thanatos, or the drive for aggression or destruction, and Eros, or the drive for life (Hutchinson 2015). In Fernanda’s case, leaving her marriage was not an easy task. Her instincts made her believe that violence was pattern for her. She feared that she wouldn’t be able to return back to her family in…

What do you picture when you hear the word love? Is it a long walk on the beach or a kiss in the rain? A white tablecloth dinner or a dozen red roses? Do you picture John Cusack holding a boombox outside Diane’s window or do you hear Paul McCartney singing ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’? In any case, it is evident that the word ‘love’ has many different definitions and personal connotations. So while research has recently begun to explore the complex neural basis behind this powerful emotion, it is my…

Forms of mate selection. Can be discussed relative to parents’ selection and/or how one might select his/her spouse. Propinquity had much to do with the relationship between my husband and myself. We met in the military while stationed in Ft. Stewart, GA. We spent a lot of time doing the same things in the same areas. We got to know each other because of the proximity at which we worked to one another. There were other factors at play that came to our awareness as time progressed. We…

As people mature, they begin to ponder about what the meaning of life is, particularly their own life, and they wonder what good knowledge truly is. It is a natural curiosity and has been thought about for several centuries. Philosophers claim to know, or at least be fairly aware of, what the meaning of life is and why attaining knowledge is imperative. Three that come to mind are Rene Descartes, Epictetus, and Plato; these three philosophers have lived through different time periods and differ…

“If you look for it, I 've got a sneaky feeling you 'll find that love actually is all around.” The movie “Love Actually” is based in England during Christmas time, as the date is set 5 weeks before Christmas. The people in this movie are a diverse group, who all face their own struggles, hardships and tough times - all involving love. Some are dealing with grief, others are dealing with family members, and we watch as some of these people form relationships while others are finding themselves…

Both behaviorism and evolutionary psychology differ from others on the spectrum in that they are both extremes, and the creation of the two fields resulted directly from the nature vs. nurture question. Despite this, modern psychologists disagree with the “all or nothing” mentality that both extremes of the spectrum pose. Instead, the question has been rephrased to “How much does each role play in development?” Given that both nature and nurture play a valuable part in acquired characteristics…

This photo was taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston as a Full Self-Portrait, “New Woman”, in 1896. She received her first camera from George Eastman, the inventor of the Eastman Kodak and a family friend. She became a noted advocate for women’s photography as well as a documenter of key historic events. When she opened her own studio in New York in 1894, She was the only woman photographer in the city. Johnston also photographed many famous photographs in Paris, but perhaps her most famous work,…

this was Freud’s original conceptualization of how humans worked. Freud’s topographical theory involves the three domains of awareness, which are the conscious mind, pre-conscious mind, and the unconscious mind. All behaviors motivated by two drives, Eros or life-sustaining drive, and Thanatos, which is the source of aggression and the death instinct. The structural theory involves the biological drives or id, superego or morality principle, and the ego the reality principle. According to Freud,…

Thessa G. Smith 103 Stratford Road-Greenwood, SC 29649 864.377.0400 tgsmith@umcsc.org Thessa G. Smith 103 Stratford Road – Greenwood, SC 29649 Cell phone: 864.377.0400 tgsmith@umcsc.org Disciplinary Questions – Part I Describe your personal experience of God and the understanding of God you derive from biblical, theological and historical sources. I have a personal relationship with God the Father through the redemptive power of Jesus Christ and the keeping power of…