Psychoanalysis

unconsciousness, Carl Jung argued that the concept of mental energy seemed more applicable. Jung believed that dreams do not reflect a child’s unrealized wishes, but are mythological stories and images from the experiences of our ancestors. His take on psychoanalysis was called analytical psychology in which Jung expressed his ideas of the collective unconscious, archetypes, and psychological types. The collective unconscious is an impersonal layer in the human psyche that is different from the…

The practice of psychology plays a key role in determining how and why people think the way they do. This field of medicine has the power to drastically improve people’s lives and provide them with clarity and solutions to certain situations in their lives with which they are struggling. Psychologists can help someone understand their early childhood years by resurrecting repressed memories that helped shape them into their adult state. Psychology can also aid people in building better…

Analyzing The “Uncanny” The Merriam-Webster dictionary gives two definitions of the word uncanny. The first definition defines it as being something that seems to have a supernatural character or origin. The second definition defines it as something that is beyond normal or beyond what is expected. In Sigmund Freud’s The “Uncanny,” Freud describes “uncanny” as a term that brings a feeling of “dread and creeping horror” (Freud 1) to a person. Freud further explains in his description that the…

Richard III and Yasunari Kawabata’s The White Horse rely heavily on dreams and how they convey or affect how one is feeling by delving into the unconscious mind, much like one does today. Dream interpretation is a widely recognized concept through the world. People have analyzed and interpreted dreams throughout history in many civilizations that had different cultures and religions. It is referenced in traditional Chinese medicine as well. By definition, dreams are the mental activity…

For as long as human beings have been able to reflect on their own consciousness, there has been a prevailing interest with one of the most mysterious activities of the mind: the formation of dreams. From ancient cultures across the world to modern psychologists, humans have always wondered about the origin of dreams. However a more recent development in the study of dreams has been the question of why dreams occur, rather than how they 're formed. The two major theories involving dreams are…

We all are, in a sense between Netflix and work, arbitrary creatures subjugated by society 's “free will” and capitalistic doctrines. Without careful introspection, we overlook the mental distance between our oughts and our wants as we slowly lose control over our lives. Most peoplesee the onslaught of individual will by our highly demanding, hierarchical, and intelligence-oriented society, but are unable to act against it. It is a lost cause, or rather a triumphant one, that despite scholastic…

MBT is rooted in psychoanalysis, attachment theory, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental psychopathology, yet DBT focuses on behaviorism, mindfulness, and dialectics. The central goal of MBT is to mentalize, which is vital in creating secure attachments, an ability that…

psychological energy, psychological resistance were all someone else’s ideas before Freud’s but as stated by Shiraev Freud put these ideas together in a new and creative way (2015). See from the unconscious Freud stemmed the idea of psychoanalysis. McLeod states that psychoanalysis is often known as the talking cure (2013). Shiraev states that the initial…

the book and underlying contexts, and although they might be theories rather than factual analysis, basing them on evidence and previous knowledge would create a valid idea. After reading several journals and examining a number of branches of psychoanalysis, I chose psychological criticism to elaborate on in this essay.…

She was living in Budapest when she got the idea to engage in this study. She was undergoing psychoanalysis with Sandor Ferenczi when she became interested in this career. Ferenczi was a close associate of Sigmund Freud. Klein was invited to meet Sigmund Freud in 1917 at a meeting between the Hungarian and Austrian Societies. Klein read her first paper…