this, Jung sees the mental process of individuation leads to the idea of God. This process of individuation looks into the underlying motives of the conscious and unconscious components of the psyche. Archetypes from religion, art and religion, have attached meanings to understanding the components of the psyche. Buber, critiqued Jung and claimed that Jung was not a master in theology and could not assert the existence of God dependent on the realms of psychology. Richard Noll criticized that…
In “Why We Crave Horror Movies,” an article by Stephen King, he explains his view on why we enjoy horror films. He chooses to say we go to fill a somewhat morbid taste for watching someone suffer, as well as using it as a method of triumph, showing others we simply can bare it. King says that if we aren’t feeling quite ourselves or are just feeling off all we really need is a good horror movie to set us right again. He claims that we all have a part in us that craves the gory, horror in films…
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…
Dream analysis can be beneficial in the therapeutic setting to gain insight into the psyche. However, theorists often disagree on how much emphasis should be placed on these interpretations as well as the depth of symbolism within the content of the dreams. On one side of the spectrum, according to Freud’s therapeutic framework, Psychoanalytic Theory, dreams are viewed as the “royal road to the unconscious” (Corey, p. 74). He believed that within the dream phenomenon, our ego’s defenses are…
moral compass is slowly decomposing and eventually his human psyche. With persistent destruction to the psyche, Macbeth has potentially become a new man; from what he once was. Both in modern society and in the tragedy of Macbeth, ambition overthrows morals. The audience sees ambition run dangerously in both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, who try increasingly harder to fulfil their desires; in pursuit of this, they completely change inner psyche and mindset. Macbeth was a courageous Scottish…
rapidly becomes consumed by greed, establishes himself as a veritable god among men, and leads natives in raids against other villages to steal their ivory. Kurtz is overwhelmingly dominated by his id, and his downfall stems from the imbalance of his psyche; thus, as a symbol of imperialism, Kurtz serves as a warning of the dangers of the imperialist mindset that allows the id to grow unchecked. Kurtz exemplifies the id as evidenced by his bestial nature and his demonstrated rapacity. As…
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…
”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…
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…