False consciousness

The mother’s hierarchy is incompatible with her son’s most blatant one, because the latter’s hierarchy is almost solely designed to spite the mother. The mother, raised in a society of racism and white supremacy, is at an age where change is exceptionally difficult; additionally, she is described as innocent and childlike, making it difficult to picture her as someone who is racist consciously out of malice. Her hierarchy may be reliant on race, but it is a product of childrearing, rather than…

“the look which the eyes manifest, no matter what kind of eyes they are, is a pure reference to myself.” – Sartre Naturally, people find eye contact with strangers quite confronting and therefore do anything they can to try and avoid it. In order to avoid eye contact with people in public situations such as being on a bus, people will often look straight ahead at the back of the bus, towards the ground or even out the window. It is interesting to explore the reasons behind why people find eye…

Mind Body Dualism When separated from their body, a person is given a difficult choice on who they will torture. In this scenario, two people consciously switch their bodies. Then, they are given a choice: they can transfer their mind into this new body and have their old body receive torture, or they can be transferred into the new body and then consciously receive the torture (344). The choice that a person makes showcases whether they will choose to preserve their old body, relying on the…

that maybe the only things that exist are our dreams. On the other hand, with the Evil Demon Hypothesis he is thinking that something malignant is influencing his thoughts and dreams. He identifies the Evil Demon as an entity that lies, and gives you false experiences, therefore, it allows him to doubt everything, even that 2+3 = 5. Secondly, in meditation two he starts doubting everything, even his existence. This leads him to the indubitable truth “Corgito ergo sum” which means “I think,…

This week’s material on self-authorship is probably my favorite of all of the theories we have talked about so far. I just find this to be the most important job we have as student affairs professionals. The biggest challenges that I see today in my work with students is that they struggle with taking on responsibility and following through on their own actions. They often look for others to give them direction instead of taking charge of their own future. Kegan’s use of orders to describe the…

In a highly developed country, technology can be all around us, but one day it “seemed” like technology was taking over. A man who is running and yelling all throughout the cities states that technology is ruining his family and now they were after him to have dominion over his mind, but is this really happening or is he over-reacting? This is how many who oppose technology seem to view technology’s use. When people make big accusations against technology it can be a big blow to a lot of people,…

Psychoanalysis, Humanism, and Trait Personality are all theories of personality that we possess. Psychoanalysis is defined as someone investigating the interaction of the conscious and unconscious mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind. Alfonso’s personality is influenced by psychoanalysis. Humanism is the study of a whole person which includes their uniqueness, creativity, and their values. Alfonso’s personality is possessed by humanism because of the lack of…

The meaning is just what it states, our minds are social; the way in which our minds function is based on the aspect of being social. The way that we think and process the world around us is dependent upon the way in which we have been influenced by others. From our birth and throughout our life people have colonized our mind; our mind in colonized based on certain people and without certain people our mind will break down. In some ways we are aware of this colonization and how people impact…

In her article “Unconscious” Francoise Meltzer defines the unconscious as “the idea that an individual has within him activities of which he is not aware” (147). In this article Meltzer visits conceptions of the unconscious from the views of many people, one of the being Freud. To Freud the unconscious is understood rhetorically through unintended lapses in memory, slips of the tongue, puns and dreams, analogies, metaphors, anecdotes. Freud breaks down the unconscious into three types: the…

The ‘Animal Ways’ are still strong due to ‘Habitual consciousness’. The ’Human Ways’ are still weak and the ‘uncharted territory’. CONTENTMENT & TRUE HAPPINESS “CANNOT BE FOUND IN ‘Animal Ways’, and CAN be found only in the opposite – The ‘Human Ways’ of Existence.” HUMAN MENTALITY DEVELOPMENT is “…INTENTION…