Folk psychology

of the Ring’ has been chosen for this analysis, because of its wide range of characters that represent Jungian archetypes. Before beginning the analysis on the film, it is important to state the definition of a Jungian archetype. In his essay ‘Psychology and Religion’, Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung describes archetypes as ‘…forms or images of a collective nature which occur practically all over the earth as constituents of myths and at the same time as autochthonous, individual products of…

increased, beginning a Portuguese neuropsychiatrist named António Egas Moniz search for a brain surgery that will change a man's mind to make their behavior controllable. Before long, he created a radical surgery that will change the history of psychology forever, that surgery would be called a Lobotomy. A Lobotomy would consist of scraping away most of the connections to and from the prefrontal of the brain, and the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain. This procedure would leave…

“Us and Them” is a critique of the social control that the medical model places upon non-European cultures. The theory of ‘Us and Them’ is derived from the psychologist Henri Tajfel, as a process of social identifiers, in which society categorizes people as strictly one way or the other. The most compelling example and that the comic intends to portray is, colonialism. European settlers invaded societies with the pretense that they were aiding the ‘savages’ native to the land. One can argue that…

televisions, the ideals of other people are shoved constantly into everyone’s minds whether or not they realize it. Charlotte Brontë fell prey to this just as many authors since her have. Her novel Jane Eyre has been subject to many comparisons to old folk tales such as “Bluebeard”…

even here on the news! This Article really caught my eye as I scrolled through U.S NEWS AND WORLD REPORT, in the health and psychology section. These are some key points of what I read and the opinion I have about them. I have my own experience with this situation my aunt and many other people from my mother’s side have obsessive compulsive disorder and are very anxious folks! I have read that this can be hereditary and I at times show certain qualities…

reflects a part of the “interrelationship between a man and his environment which gives form to his daily habitat”. Instead of studying the “high style” buildings of various civilizations, he looks at and compares the characteristics and meaning of the folk, primitive, vernacular building and the modern ones. Rapoport links behaviour and form in the book and states that house form influences the behaviour. The book focuses on comparison between the vernacular and modern societies and their…

When many people think of a serial killer they think of Hannibal Lecter, although he is fictional, or Jeffrey Dahmer. A serial killer is someone who murders at least three people that fit a specific category weather it is based on gender, race, wealth, age, religion, or any other characteristic (Serial Killer 2001). Serial killers have intrigued and frightened people in American culture for decades. One of the more horrifying aspects of serial killers is that there is no way of distinguishing…

The subject of Social Policy, once known as social administration, uses knowledge from other subjects such as economics, history, psychology and sociology, in order to meet what is sometimes known as the big five (Spicker, 2008). The big five refers to the main needs that need to be met, in order to look-after human well being. These five needs are the need for housing, social security…

Cognitive Psychology Assignment The cold morning sleeps like a child as I sit to write a paper on cognition. So what is cognition, as the name indicates studies t cognition. But it’s not as simple as it seems, it like a river which looks as clear as a crystals but has life within. So it’s not wrong to say cognitive processes such as thinking, reasoning give us life every day. Cognition as we know is not a unitary process and it’s not a linear progression. It’s multidirectional and…

Understanding Envy The Definition of Envy According to Smith and Kim (2007), envy is “an unpleasant, often painful emotion characterized by feelings of inferiority, hostility, and resentment caused by an awareness of a desired attribute enjoyed by another person or group of persons” (p. 46). As said by Kant (1780/1997), what lies at the foundation of envy is the comparison of oneself to a better performing person. At the idea of envy, it is not the pain that occurs when other people excel in a…