The Primal Urge

wasn’t what he had done or not done or even anything he said. It was what she had said” (26)—Stacy made herself vulnerable when she revealed that she had survived being struck by lightning because she is now no ordinary woman. She awakens the primal sexual urge in Noonan and as ‘alpha male’ he has to possess this remarkable woman. However, when Stacy humiliates Noonan by saying that she will not “make it” (28) with him, he treats her cruelly—throwing a lobster in her face and yelling at her.…

Are you looking for an interesting story; I urge you to listen and pay attention to it. I must warn you, not something I usually do, that this story is rather unpleased and dark; it’s even darker for my kind. The horror I experienced during the events might make someone go insane from the images of the dead and the sounds of the suffering. I can still see and hear them, and the ice-cold plunge into the deep abyss. Oh, I must have forgotten something important. I’m a cat! Yes, I’m the little…

directors. By default, and suitably at that, this would mean characters like Bernard and John fit the Ego label. Through conditioning, characters like Lenina draw parallels to the Fruedian ID since they react in manners that only satisfy their most primal urges. On the opposite end of the spectrum are Superego-world-controllers who deviously plot and scheme with new methods that will efficiently contain and control the societal ID they have created. In between this Freudian psychological…

the whole basis of psychoanalysis is to transform the unconscious into conscious. Though Freud did not invent the idea of the unconscious mind, he was a major reason for its popularity. The unconscious mind contains our biological instincts for primal urges such as sex and violence. We do not know the information that is accumulated in our unconscious mind and it is not accessible to the brain. Personally, I agree with and am fascinated by the theory of the unconscious mind. It makes me…

Race is a fairly new concept getting it 's roots during the Renaissance.Chapter five of Our Origins covers the idea of race. Moving into the 1700s, an anatomist by the name of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach began to categorize humans he encountered during his travels into different races. The process for forming his taxonomy of the people he encountered was based on skin color and skull shape. His conclusions stated that there were five different races of people and also argued that these races…

As ancient Greek culture was afraid of the unknown, of what could happen after death, they feared a monster that could lure you in with promises of hope and then drag you into the great unknown. The idea that something so beautiful could end so horribly could horrify people of any century. I hope that these facts of Sirens throughout history will be both horrifying, as they were interesting as they were for me. In many stories Sirens were once beautiful women, and while their parentage can be…

I remember when I was going to play in my first ever basketball game, there is a lot of thoughts and feelings going through your head. The feelings are completely unlike practice, as often players have to do better than their whole team and the rest of the other. There is a bar that they make in that person’s mind that they have to fill and makes they have to jump above it. This is evident not only in basketball but in almost any areas in life. There are many obstacles in life, and people need…

Anyone who hasn’t been living under a rock for the past thirty years (on that note, even ten years) acknowledges that the world has changed radically. From the rise and further advancement of computers, to the increasing prevalence of bioengineering, and even something as simple as how people discuss things all demonstrate that this is a radically different world from my parents, my grandparents and my great grandparents. With these innovations, problems both contemporary and archaic have…

or the first night, she tossed and turned under the stars, wondering whether she had survived after all. This was pure weakness. Morgana at her strongest couldn't fear, couldn't even feel. Her strength was supposed to lie in impulse, a primal instinct of fight or flight that conquered all obstacles. Power was safety, so when would she return to it? After a few days of wandering around in agony, of feeding off fowl and wild berries, and fighting off nausea and exhaustion, the question was…

causing their dormant evil to come alive. The boys start by doing small acts of evil, such as cursing or knocking over sand castles. As time on the island grows, evil takes over and they begin to kill one another. Sigmund Freud classified the inner urges into id as animalistic…