Psyche

Painting the Canvas of the Psyche “I can resist everything but temptation” (Oscar Wilde). Temptation and influences exist all around an individual and it is up to them to choose what can or cannot be of effect. The strength to resist this temptation and influence stems from one’s mental state; the human psyche is similar to a blank canvas. Like the canvas, external and internal forces are what cause changes in a person. As these forces influence an individual their mind is distorted and their…

Psyche was youngest and most beautiful daughter of a king and queen. She was so beautiful that her beauty out shown Aphrodite’s. This angered the goddess, who sent her son, Eros the god of love, to make Psyche fall in love with a monster. When Eros saw her, he was enamored with her and accidentally pierced himself with one of his arrows, falling in love instantly. Meanwhile, Psyche, while admired by all, was not truly loved by anyone and ended up being sad and alone. To solve this, she went to…

The complexity of the human psyche fascinates many psychoanalysts, including Sigmund Freud. He developed one theory about the human psyche and divided it into three parts: the id, superego, and ego. "According to Freud's model of the psyche, the id is the primitive and instinctual part of the mind that contains sexual and aggressive drives and hidden memories, the super-ego operates as a moral conscience, and the ego is the realistic part that mediates between the desires of the id and the…

Wodehouse’s Discernment of the Human Psyche Throughout the many works of P.G. Wodehouse, a unique sensibility and insight into the human psyche emerges with every turning of a page. The author manifests an in-depth understanding of the interworking’s of man’s labyrinth-like mind with the illustration of dynamic and personable character types. He painstakingly exposes the inner thoughts, feelings, and motivations of his prominent characters in order for the reader to gain a fascinating…

story. In the story Cupid and Psyche, Psyche, a beautiful maiden, obtains Aphrodite's jealousy. Aphrodite makes her son, Cupid, affect Psyche's chance at love. Instead, Cupid falls in love with Psyche, and they face challenges attempting to uphold a relationship. The concept of a hero's journey explains Cupid and Psyche's story throughout twelve steps. Initially, the first step in a hero's journey, ordinary world, shows men obsessing over Psyche's beauty. Though Psyche possesses men fawning…

Literary Criticism: The Awakening and the Failure of the Psyche It is apparent that one can correlate Greek mythology to The Awakening when reading Franklin’s criticism. Franklin associates the paradigm of Psyche to the pathological, internal struggle of Edna, where the fear of the confrontation of solitude is prevalent. Franklin first explains the irony in the title of The Awakening, given the fact that Edna sleeps, living in a world filled with fantasy rather than being psychologically and…

Tripartite of the Psyche The author Plato’s central focus in “The Republic” is to answer the question—what makes a person just? To tackle this inquiry, Plato’s character Socrates, from pages 136 to 138 goes into detail, arguing why there must be the three parts to an individual’s soul. In this portion of the text, Socrates argues that a just person—an individual’s soul that has harmony between the three areas of the psyche—rational, appetite, and spirited; therefore, the person exhibits…

both Psyche and Augustus participated in selfless acts for the community which were valued highly by Romans in their pursuit towards deification. In most religious practices, people don't become gods but more just believe in them. In the story of “Cupid and Psyche”, a mortal woman becomes a deity after being bullied by a jealous God for her beauty and all the men of the town falling for her. Venus’ altar had been deserted due to the fact that they were all over the new young child Psyche, which…

The concept of faith and choices has been around for ages as people always wish to have explanations for what happens to them and their surroundings. In the story of Cupid and Psyche it seems as though fate is already drawn out for Psyche, even though if she were in charge of her actions, the choice would clearly point her in the opposite direction of the events that happened. Then, in Epicurus’s Letter to Menoeceus choices are regarded highly in the turn of events to occur. Choices and fate are…

curiosity, but curiosity and its evaluation can take on different roles depending on the story. In order to fully analyze curiosity’s role in fairytales, it’s helpful to look at some examples, in particular, “Fitcher’s Bird” and “The Story of Cupid and Psyche”. In discussing these tales, I hope to examine what curiosity represents, the link between curiosity and disobedience, and the influence of gender on the consequences of curiosity. First of all, what does curiosity represent? In…