Master-slave dialectic

The Time I Got Stitches The worst thing that’s happened to me in my life was the time I had to get stitches. It was the summer of 2012. The weather was warm, but the wind was blazing. My cousin and I, who happened to live next door to each other in our old apartments were playing volleyball in the middle of the street, while our family were in the house hanging out. The ball we used was not hard so it could move with the wind. There were another set of apartments which everyone called the…

Slaves in the civilization of Segu by Maryse Conde were treated inequitably than one can ever imagine. Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control were they live and what kinds of work they perform. However in Segu, slaves had engage in relationships when they’re told, they basically had no free will. It leaves the slaves impotent and hankering for death, because death to the slave is worth more than their life. Polygamy played a disturbing role on how…

Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian Weiss M.D. is a persuasive documentation of reincarnation, the past-life, and the afterlife. This book recounts the true story of the author, Brian Weiss, and his experience with reincarnation. He is a prominent American psychiatrist who is married and has two children. He heals his young patient, Catherine, with past-life therapy. In 1966, Brian Weiss graduated Columbia University with a Phi Beta Kappa (Honors), magna cum laude (means "with great praise"). In…

The Lord and the Slave According to Georg Friedrich Hegel in his Lordship and Bondage, all conscious being fall into a “new relationship” of “the Lord” and “the Slave.” (Hegel, 32) Proving that this relationship is still being seen we use it to analyze the relationships between men and women in Glaspell’s Trifles. Throughout the story, the theme of master and slave are presented through clues that are shown through the relationships between men and women in the story. The first clear clue…

Coming into college I knew I was going to meet new and different people compared to me. Dialectical tension occurs in every relationship. My roommate and I get along, but bringing friends to our room can be very embarrassing. The guy just does not know how keep his side tidy enough to at least be presentable. He has clothes scattered everywhere, food on his desk that would remind you of a garbage can, and his floor looks like somebody painted a picture on it, then messed up so the artist just…

The stability and satisfaction of relationships is a major problem that has been, and is continually being researched. Relational dialectics takes a look at what communication in relationships looks like. The two leading researchers in this field are Baxter and Montgomery. They are also the same researchers who proposed the theory in 1988. Their definition of this field of study is, “The both/and quality that leads us to contradiction between us and our relationship partner”(Wood, 2000, p.132).…

There is famous research on the subject of dialectical tensions; Baxter and Montgomery (1996) in their book “Relating Dialogues and Dialectics” asserted there are three different dialectical tensions, and six different parts; the first is “Autonomy vs Connectedness”, or the need between independence and connection. The second dialectical tension is “Novelty vs Predictability (or spontaneity)”…

distinguish three key dialectics partners face, and how these dialects and responses play an important part in the success of the romantic relationship. Dialectical theory focuses on contradictory and opposing tensions, without trying to resolve them but look at the possible responses to these contradictions. In romantic relationships, partners may find that many of their inner thoughts and feelings contradict each other and cause tension, these are called dialectics. With these dialectics,…

Autonomy leads to dialectic tension with the desire for connectedness with a significant other, the state of closeness and intimacy we share with another person. When you become extremely close to someone you begin to form a singular identity. As the authors of Elasticity and the Dialectic Tensions of Organizational Identity would put it, how we deal with dialectic tensions is a matter of if we expand our individual identities in a relationship…

. I have written before but to save those who inquire from going back in all my journals, I share again. I think it needs to be said that often one finds a common misconception about what it means to be a submissive or a slave advocated for on this site. It may seem at first glance that the submissive belongs on her knees..considered as an inferior and one of weakness.. they believe they have no value or worth inherent within themselves.. Many so called "dominants" support this notion which…