Stream of consciousness

Psychoanalysis, Humanism, and Trait Personality are all theories of personality that we possess. Psychoanalysis is defined as someone investigating the interaction of the conscious and unconscious mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind. Alfonso’s personality is influenced by psychoanalysis. Humanism is the study of a whole person which includes their uniqueness, creativity, and their values. Alfonso’s personality is possessed by humanism because of the lack of…

The meaning is just what it states, our minds are social; the way in which our minds function is based on the aspect of being social. The way that we think and process the world around us is dependent upon the way in which we have been influenced by others. From our birth and throughout our life people have colonized our mind; our mind in colonized based on certain people and without certain people our mind will break down. In some ways we are aware of this colonization and how people impact…

In her article “Unconscious” Francoise Meltzer defines the unconscious as “the idea that an individual has within him activities of which he is not aware” (147). In this article Meltzer visits conceptions of the unconscious from the views of many people, one of the being Freud. To Freud the unconscious is understood rhetorically through unintended lapses in memory, slips of the tongue, puns and dreams, analogies, metaphors, anecdotes. Freud breaks down the unconscious into three types: the…

The ‘Animal Ways’ are still strong due to ‘Habitual consciousness’. The ’Human Ways’ are still weak and the ‘uncharted territory’. CONTENTMENT & TRUE HAPPINESS “CANNOT BE FOUND IN ‘Animal Ways’, and CAN be found only in the opposite – The ‘Human Ways’ of Existence.” HUMAN MENTALITY DEVELOPMENT is “…INTENTION…

Philosophy sheds light on many themes, one of the issues philosophy contends is the understanding how mind and body are related. Rene Descartes, a father of philosophical ideology devised “The Argument from Introspection” to attempt to answer such question. The argument from introspection explains that the mind and body are two entirely separate states and therefore cannot be identical to one another. Descartes’ rationale behind the argument is that the body is separable because it can be…

to the book, there are four approaches to defining death: irreversible loss of flow of vital fluids, irreversible loss of the soul from the body, irreversible loss of the capacity for bodily integration, and irreversible loss of the capacity of consciousness of social interaction. These four basic approaches to defining death are the basic stepping stones in knowing death has happened, and the beginning steps for loved ones to move on to acceptance in today’s world. When it comes to irreversible…

virtue but when cherishing it for mere intellectual pride, we fall into even greater darkness. Only when the higher consciousness is obtained one can feel united with all life, because the source of misery, the sense of diversity, is vanished. ‘He who sees all beings in the Self and the Self in all beings, he never turns away from the Self.’ Advaita Vedanta sees non-dual consciousness as the natural state but we have to be careful not tomix the term of oneness with sameness. Objects around us…

Meditation is one of few practices today, that helps an individual focus their minds on a particular object, thought or activity to achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state. Meditation is used to reduce stress, anxiety, depression and pain. There is many ways to do it but many people do it sitting and closing their eyes in a quiet environment. Athletes all over the world should perform meditation whether it be before a practice or the biggest game of their career because there is so…

Emergentism Proyash Sarkar Emergentism refers to a wide range of theories—right from dualism to physicalism. We shall see below that the basic contention of emergentism is neutral about the dualism/physicalism debate. Roughly speaking, emergentism about the mental is the claim that the mental is an emergent property of the physical. It arises out of the basal property, i.e. the physical, yet retains its independence, in the sense that it has its independent causal power. Thus the mental has its…

“Unconscious Thought Fantasies and Dreams Repression Emotions The Mind” (McGowan). There are many details when it comes to talking about psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is the study of the emotions and thoughts of the human brain. Sigmund Freud, the man who created the theory of psychoanalysis. Freud grew up in the small town of Freiberg, Moravia which is now a part of the Czech Republic. Freud spent the majority of his adult life studying and testing his theory of psychoanalysis. This paper will…