Psychoanalysis

Personality traits refer to individual differences between people in characteristic thoughts, feelings, and behaviors (McCrae & Costa as cited in McAdams, 2006). The development of personality occurs throughout a person's life. Erikson’s theory of psychosocial stages is one of the best-known theories of personality in psychology. Each stage presents a crisis that each individual must deal sufficiently and it will either consciously or unconsciously shaped a person's personality as he or she…

This essay will be discussing the application of two distinct personality theories from the perspective of literature, videography and life achievements of a Caribbean personality. Our chosen personality theories include Carl Rogers humanistic approach, and Alfred Adler’s Neo-Freudian’s theory. We will be applying these theories to the late former Prime Minister Errol Barrow. Both theories will be represented in respect of their individual attributes. The principal components of the humanistic…

All of modern psychology recognizes human beings as operating on the triple dimensions of ABC, i.e., Affect, Behavior and Cognition. Accordingly, broadly speaking, there are three kinds of people having the three kinds of orientations in their lives – the emotionally-oriented, the action-oriented, and the intellectually oriented. Even so, there are three types of Yoga – Bhakti Yoga (Devotion) for the emotional people, Karma Yoga (Action/Renunciation of Action) for the restless and active people…

The psychological theories of Sigmund Freud suggests that the motivations for “human behavior in the irrational and sexually driven realm of the unconscious, which is revealed mainly in our dreams”. People who are more likely unconscious will have terrible actions toward people or things because they want to avoid their faults from the past. In The Stranger, by Albert Camus, although Salamano refuses to honestly address the past by transferring his problem to the dog, Meursault turns his…

The short essay “On Self-Respect” written by Joan Didion is dedicated to the discussion of the question of human self-respect as a psychological phenomenon. The author aimed to answer the following questions: what does the self-respect actually mean, what contribution does it make to human life and habits, and what should be done to develop and maintain the feeling of self-respect. According to Didion (1961), the concept of self-respect is not something that can be dedicated to a person in…

In his essay “The Uncanny”, Sigmund Freud attempts to explain the concept of “the uncanny” by using two methods: defining the word through language and analyzing individual experiences. In order to support his claims and illustrate the notion of “the uncanny”, he uses E.T.A. Hoffman’s story “The Sandman”. Despite the fact that this text is intriguing and at first sight appealing, Freud fails to convince his readers that he has discovered the true meaning of “the uncanny” because he struggles…

Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory of development vs Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory of development Erik Erikson's psychosocial theory and Sigmund Freud's psychosexual theory are two famous theories of human development. While he was affected by Freud's ideas, Erikson's theory differed in a number of important ways. Like Freud, Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of predetermined stages. Unlike Freud’s theory of psychosexual stages, Erikson’s…

In 1923, a man by the name of Sigmund Freud forged the concept that the human psyche had multiple parts or layers, three to be exact. In the Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses psychological allegory to illustrate that people who are exposed to a society with no structure have their true human psyche comes out. This comes in these three forms: Id, Superego, and Ego. In Lord of the Flies, after the group of boys had been stranded on the island for a number of days, certain boys’ true…

Hall and Duval (2003:17-18) supports the above definitions and describe counselling and psychotherapy as primarily focussed on problems, on what hurts, violates, and/ or causes a person to get stuck psychologically, Regenesys, Master Of Business, Administration Mentoring and Coaching Study Guide, (2016:15). Therapy Therapy is defined by the Oxford dictionary as the treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder or treatment of mental or psychological disorders by psychological means.…

Abstract The purpose of this report is to learn more about the Erikson’s theory-the crisis of role confusion is adolescence. This contain the Erikson’s biography, and his theory in the fifth stage of development. This report can also help people to know the similarities and differences between Freud’s theory and Erikson’s theory. Thus, this topic will also help people to learn more about…