Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud conceptualised the working of the human mind through his famous ‘id, ego, and super-ego’ theory in 1923. According to Freud, the human mind is a complex interaction of the id, ego, and super-ego. All together the three make up what is known as personality, or the human ‘psyche’. To put it simply, the id is the instinctual function of the mind, the ego is the realistic function and the super-ego is the moral function of the mind. There is a familiar metaphor of angel and devil on…

A Yellow Raft in Blue Water Through the Psychoanalytical lens Sigmund Freud’s theory of psychoanalytic’s gives us insight into the different layers of a person’s psyche. The three layers of a person psyche’s get more complex as they go on, with the id being the most infantile, the ego being more rational, and the superego relying on complex thinking. The level of development of a person’s unconscious psyche depends largely on the way in which they were raised. In his novel A Yellow Raft in Blue…

According to Freud, personality develops in a person’s childhood years through a sequence of stages which he named “psychosexual theory of development”. Personality is the product of the interactions between the 3 elements of the mind namely; the id, the ego, & super ego. The simple motivating force of personality is identified as the “libido” which delivers the 3 elements that creates the personality namely the super ego, the ego and the id that develops through the “psychosexual stages (of…

In his Modernity and Its Discontents, Freud argues that human psyche is structured into three parts: id, ego, and superego. The id is the primitive part of human personality (I); it operates on the pleasure principle fulfilled by Eros (sexual love, desire for life) and Thanatos (aggressiveness, desire for death), regardless of the consequences (VI). However, civilization’s goal is to work in “the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…

“Us and Them” is a critique of the social control that the medical model places upon non-European cultures. The theory of ‘Us and Them’ is derived from the psychologist Henri Tajfel, as a process of social identifiers, in which society categorizes people as strictly one way or the other. The most compelling example and that the comic intends to portray is, colonialism. European settlers invaded societies with the pretense that they were aiding the ‘savages’ native to the land. One can argue that…

Alexis Fry Dr. Nesbit Psych 422 November 28, 2017 Existential Psychology and Irvin Yalom Existential therapy focuses on free will, self determination, and the search for meaning. It often centers on the person as a whole rather than on the person’s symptoms. It emphasizes the capacity for self-awareness, striving for identity, relationships to others, anxiety as a condition of living, and awareness of death. While it is similar to Gestalt therapy and has multiple contributors sharing similar…

McCrae & Costa’s (1999) five-trait theory also houses in it the plaster hypothesis, which claims that personality traits form and develop through childhood before stabilizing in middle adulthood. It is important to note that, unlike the Five Factor Theory presented by McCrae & Costa’s (1999), the contextual perspective, as noted earlier on in the paper, asserts that personality change, throughout an individual adult life, is due specifically to person-environment interactions, for it can be…

Shame Resilience and Jung’s Transpersonal Theory Applied to Mental Illness Mental illness is something that touches almost everyone, and it is important to understand the ways that people can deal with their illnesses. Although there are an overwhelming number of theories that can be applied to therapy practices, I wanted to look at theories that were a little more individual. Two theories that caught my attention when thinking about how people cope were shame resilience theory and…

Kim Scott-Dorris Organizational Management Professor Abraham Step 3: Write three pages (double spaced – 12 point font) to include: A) Summarizing Carl Jung’s theory Carl Jung was one of the first people to describe introversion and extraversion in a psychological context. In Jung’s Psychological Types, he theorizes that each disposition falls into one of two categories, the introvert, and the extrovert. The introvert is focused on the internal world of reflection, dreaming, and vision.…

How Behaviour Can Be Learned and Unlearned Through the Principals of Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, and Observational Learning. The following essay explains how the principals of classical and operant conditioning, with the aid of a case study, explain how a young woman named Sesy may have learned her addiction to Nyaope. It discusses how operant and classical conditioning may be used to end Sesy’s learned addiction and follows with an argument expressing why observational…