Therapeutic relationship

person’s actions. When we analyze the motivations and the inspiration behind the different ways in which the characters express their love, we can see that Sethe’s love runs the deepest and the thickest. In Morrison’s Beloved, we see love in each relationship held by the central characters. We see the maternal love between a mother and her children, romantic love between a man and a woman, and even platonic love between two women. This love manifests itself in various, and sometimes bizarre,…

In E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Sandman,” Nathanael falls in love with the object of his desires, the devastatingly gorgeous Olympia. Nathanael worships Olympia for her beauty, her muteness, and her lack of opinion. Eventually though, Nathanael realizes that Olympia is an automaton and has no substances because she is constructed merely to be the most perfect looking woman. Similarly, In Jeffrey Eugenides The Virgin Suicides, The Lisbon sisters are worshipped solely for their bodies prohibiting them from…

As most people know, getting into a new relationship can be difficult. Trying to get your in-laws to like you can be a challenge, and cause some anxiety. Our reading this week was to read stories that discussed the conflicts and difficulties seen when having a new family. These writings told the stories of women who struggled with being in a new lifestyle and their struggles they had to face between their in-laws. A couple of the stories, like “The Language of Family” and “The Food Factory” were…

Have you ever gone down the river in a boat with two drunk men? Well, lets just say it might be fun for you while you are still dry and have a ride home or just warm clothes waiting for you at the end. Towards the end of the day, all of that incredible time you were having with those two drunk guys won’t be so great anymore. One Saturday I was staying at my dad’s house and he and his friends had planned a canoe trip that we were all going to do. They even planned on camping after the ride…

as Houston with regard to loneliness. It is expressed by Orwell and Pope Francis that human suffering is created in loneliness. Pope Francis uses his point of view and diction in his claims to show how humans need impressionable experiences and relationships of love to flourish in the goodness of life and overcome the egotistical nature…

Trust is something so valuable in a relationship, platonic or romantic, that it can later show who someone is as a person, and their reputation. During the epic, The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus builds as a character and the reader can see the leader’s courageous a side, but also the selfish side of him. Along the way to Ithaca, Odysseus acquires a bag of winds as a gift from Aeolus, God of the winds. This bag creates a debacle during their trip home. Odysseus’s crew opens the bag of winds without…

love the most powerful emotion that most of us will ever experience. Love has many different meanings, however love is the most powerful force in the world, because it involves relationship, family, friends, and conceptual love. One of the ways to show the meaning of love is in a relationships of two individuals. Relationship love means a passionate affection for another person,…

communication shapes relationships and how successful they are. While growing up, children are taught how to properly act and talk in order to maintain a healthy relationship and be effective communicators. However, what if instead of the communication being the determination of the relationship, the type of relationship is essentially what shapes the communication? More specifically, how does the relationship of family members effect the communication involved, compared to the relationship of…

Claudio plus their friends who are deceived. Shakespeare uses deception and disguise with emotion and logical strategies. Different types of deception and disguise can also make one gullible and a little too prideful also, it can make or break relationships. For example, through deception one can become gullible especially when they're falling in love. In the book Claudio falls in love with Hero, love at first sight. Claudio’s friends Benedick and Don…

I think sometimes people get so consumed in their own little bubble that we find every way to claim that certain people are not there for us like we think they should be. The real question we need to ask ourselves is, when was the last time you took the time to tell those you love the most how much they mean to you? Whether it is a simple text, phone call, or snapchat you need to put forth the effort to value your friendships. The worst that can happen is they don 't respond! It is so easy to…