Psyche

is representative of the protagonist’s original state of mind. Initially, her sanity, like the remnants of the wallpaper sticking to the wall, is relatively intact, with the sections of the wallpaper “torn off in spots” representing the part of her psyche that has been rattled by her primary condition. As time passes on, it becomes apparent that the space that is allotted to her is harming her more than helping her as the unnamed protagonist falls more and more into delirium. In the end, the…

”A traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one's past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality on the lives of its victims.” (Rothschild, 2000) Memories are more than just a documentation of yesterday. Some of them can be important to us and reoccurring, some can be a point in which our lives changed drastically, while others are usually forgotten a week later. When remembering them they usually are tied to…

therapeutic method for certain nerve diseases which Sigmund Freud and his colleague and compatriot Joseph Breuer jointly elaborated around 1890 and which would produce the work Studies on Hysteria (1895). Freud's first concern in the field of human psyche was the study of hysteria, through which he came to the conclusion that hysterical symptoms were caused by repressed internal psychic conflicts. Over the years he would come to the conviction that mental disorders originated…

Today, advertising in media is nigh impossible to avoid by shear design. The bombardment of professionally photoshopped women in magazines and the number of chocolate-eating women and burger-eating men seems too much for the American psyche. Authors Riddi Shah and F. Diane Barth write about the quirks of the social dichotomy of gender in American society today. Advertising in American magazines has lead to women envying others and overall the genders separating themselves needlessly. Due to the…

Through waking imagination and listening to the messages of our dreams, we can link and reintegrate our different parts. Life’s goal is individuation, the process of coming to know, giving expression to, and balancing the different components of the psyche. If we understand our uniqueness, we can forgo a process of individuation and start to understand our true self. Each individual human being has a specific calling and nature that is uniquely his or her own, and unless these are fulfilled…

ghost, Leon Trout. Leon Trout, is a damaged, guilt ridden spirit, aboard the Bahia de la Darwin cruise ship whose psyche allows him to create a story which mirrors his life. Leon Trout, a broken soul uses his psyche to create characters based on his childhood and adulthood traumas. His feels guilty for being a “co-conspirator in driving my mother away forever” (279). Through Leon’s psyche, we get his disgust of the human “great big brain” (9), his love for his mother and guilt ridden mind about…

about the human psyche through your exploration of various cultures? Through my exploration, I learned that all cultures exhibit certain traits and themes which are important to them and represent who they are. It is these cultural themes that encompass the archetypes of the collective unconscious (Car Jung, 2017). 3. How do you feel your work has had an impact on psychology as you see it today? My approach to psychology is unique, as it stresses the importance of understanding the psyche…

unrealistic escape with the ultimate fate of their lives. Keats portrays the theme of achieving immorality through love and dreams by using the stories of his characters. For example, Porphyro achieves immorality through his love for Madeline, and Psyche achieves immorality through her love for Eros. Keats's poetry shows that the audience, too, can let go of a desired possession due to the realization of the harsh reality life can bring. However, those who can not let go of that object, will…

for example, can show what a single character or multiple characters are thinking and feeling. It describes their commonalities in the psyche and their differences. Published in 1932, by William Faulkner, The Unvanquished, a Civil War novel, was written more than sixty years after the war ended, and deals primarily on the repercussions of the war on people’s psyche and actions. Unsurprisingly, Faulkner uses the first-person narrative to achieve three main goals: cause the reader to become more…

human interaction to their social condition. Identityscape, which would place into a subset overlapping in both “ethnoscape” and “mediascape”, perceives, “shifting the world in which we live” through a pusedo-environment interlinking similar cultural psyches across geographic borders (Appadurai, 297). I am convinced this metaphysical construct of mutual transnational identity sprouts from the effects of geographic, societal authorities such as post-colonialism and national exile. Comparing and…