Psyche

feelings of depression onto her faith so that she can deal with the anxiety (McClary 2007). If Jung were to commit on this he would describe the process by saying that her faith acted as a force of healing on her psyche that deals with depression and anxiety. Her faith allowed that psyche to felt comfortable and express itself. By doing so she was able to deal with her…

Allusions Performance Task Biblical: David and Goliath: Historical: Watergate: Watergate occurred during the time of President Nixon’s administration and led to his resignation. President Nixon was linked to burglars found in the watergate of the White House trying to steal secret documents. As a result, Nixon attempted to cover the situation up and tried to prevent the FBI from investigating. Thespian: Today, thespian basically means actor and goes back to Thesis. Thesis in Greek is known…

Cupid: Cupid, the god of love and hate, held great abilities and responsibility with his power. He could destroy one's life with just two arrows, as he did to Apollo in chapter 3 of Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology. The stories goes that Apollo slayed a large beast with his archery skills, but simply killing the monster was not enough for Apollo and he began to brag to Cupid. Apollo boasted, “What have you to do with warlike weapons, saucy boy? Leave them for hands worthy of them.”…

your love’s face once more? Would you rather die than live without your soul mate? Many characters in Edith Hamilton’s, Mythology, put their lives in ultimate danger to be with their true loves. Through the stories of Pyramus and Thisbe, Cupid and Psyche, and Orpheus and Eurydice, it is shown that sometimes you must act with extreme behavior to be with your true love. A few lose their lives in the fight to keep their loved ones. The story, Procris and Cephalus, demonstrates that love can cause…

Every human is inevitably born with an impetuous portion of their psyche. This unintelligible slice of the human mind is characterized as the “id,” and it contains our primitive drives, operating largely in accordance with the pleasure principle, whereby its two main goals are the seeking of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. The id can be separated into two parts – the Eros, which is the life instinct that motivates people to focus on pleasure-seeking tendencies, and the Thanatos, which is the…

She was malicious as well, in the story of, “Aphrodite and Psyche” Aphrodite wanted Eros to make Psyche love the ugliest women in the world which is alike to how she was forced to marry Hephaestus, a god known for being deformed and unsightly. Aphrodite was a jealous goddess and didn’t want any mortal to be more beautiful than her. For an example, she was jealous of Psyche when mortals refused to follow Aphrodite and instead followed Psyche because of her beauty. She used her powers to…

In Neo-Analytic Psychology, analysis of human soul or psyche of an individual was among the most important part of Jung’s legacy. He interpreted that psyche is a self-regulating system where it operates through the principle of opposite meanwhile constantly striving for growth (Raya, 2013). The theory of Carl Jung describes the psyche through three component parts. His concepts of the psyche can be broken down as conscious ego, personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. According to…

unfortunate and the poor. This made Theseus fitting to the role of a hero in the Greeks’ eyes. Another trait that made the hero better to the Greeks was their ability to love, especially other heroes. The strongest instance of this is the story of Psyche and Eros.…

characters. Freud’s theories provide a way to decipher the minds of characters to better comprehend what motivates them and what values they hold deep down. In looking into Frazier’s characters’ minds with the help of Freud’s ideology regarding the human psyche, much can be learned about the true face of them. Throughout…

be largely integrated into his relationship with Psyche. The idea of trust. The Greek gods largely integrate trust into many concepts/myths and in Cupids mind, he believes that a relationship can’t be built on doubt which is why he ran from Psyche when she had managed to see him. This side of the myth displays equally the loss of trust between partners due to doubts caused by Psyche’s sisters which later then triggered a bump in Cupids and Psyches relationship. In Psyche’s case, this myth is…