Unconscious mind

It was the first week of class at University of North Carolina. I was already in college and attending one of my first freshman classes in a large auditorium. I remember that the college was UNC in particular because some people were wearing shirts and sweaters from the bookstore. It was dark outside even though the sun should have been out since I was going to class and doing things that I would normally always do during the day. There were lots of different characters in my dream, most of them…

Summary of Jungian Archetypal Psychoanalysis Many texts of literature throughout human history share a similar structure. These common themes in form and plot structure can sometimes allow us to divine some of humanity’s innermost, sometimes repressed, thoughts and mindsets. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is no exception to this pattern. While reading Sir Gawain, there are many common themes, or archetypes, that we can examine to gain some insight on humanity and some of its subconscious…

model, proposed the sexuality identity, as innate, that one was born either male, being a masculine, or female, being a feminine. This model, discarded other factors such as social and cultural contexts, along with subjectivity of emotions and unconscious desires, which Freud based his theory on. Thus, for feminist, this rejection of the biological model makes it possible to “argue against certain ideas of feminine as natural” (Ramsey, 2000, p.169). For feminist, Freudian theory “meant that…

dream or not. Dreams are a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind, typically occurring during REM sleep. But, why do people dream? Many famous psychologists have come up with theories on why humans dream and the purpose of a dream is. One such psychologist is Sigmund Freud with his famous, yet non-scientific, theory that dreams are symbolic expressions of a person’s unconscious conflict or wish fulfillment and contain manifest and latent content. A theory created…

uncle, pushes Hamlet to the breaking point. “That is the question—/ Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And, by opposing, end them?”( 3.1.57-61). Hamlet was asking if it was more noble to suffer through his trials or to remove himself from overwhelming amount of pain he is feeling. In Hamlet's unconscious, there was a battle between his id and his superego where the ego was trying to mitigate the…

conscious and unconscious part of the mind, that has to do with the memory, feelings, and actions. Depending on the dream he analyzes the dream to your childhood. The author (Dr. Brill, A. A.) mentioned all accurate information, therefore there in no weaknesses. I feel this book is no better, nor least good than my other sources. Although this source will provide the evidence I need to discuss Sigmund Freud, and his theories about…

Hypnosis works for the majority of people. If you use drugs or alcohol, hypnosis is not recommended. This technique works by talking directly to the unconscious mind to stimulate responses. The way this works in simple, turning off the left-hand side of the brain while simultaneously waking up and communicating with the right-hand side of the brain. This is the part that changes behavior. Weight loss is another…

sometimes we have nightmares? Dreams are not just a part of our usual sleep; dreams which we can see and remember have scientific meaning too. Firs of all, what is a dream? Dream is a sequence of our ideas, imagination, emotions and sensations in the mind which we have during different stages of sleep. Moreover, there is thy study of dreaming which is called “oneirology”. Therefore, there are many scientists who provide a lot of various and fascinating hypotheses about dreaming. I am going to…

The psychoanalytic theory mainly focuses on how the unconscious mind influences behavior and thoughts. Emphasis is placed on previous childhood experiences and events and how they may have influence on the adult mind and actions. The psychoanalytic theory also proposes that people are innately bad natured. While I do agree that childhood experiences and traumas can most definitely affect the adult psyche, I don't believe that childhood experiences are the end-all, be-all of adult behaviors and…

He wakes up shaken, soaked with sweat, and gasping for breath. Raskolnikov recalls the dreadful way the mare was murdered and he says aloud to himself that of course his plan was just a fantastical one and he reassures himself that “yesterday I realised completely that I could never bear to do it” (62). He exclaims, “...I couldn't do it!”, but his belief in his inability to complete the plan wavers when he then says in the same breath, “there is no flaw in all that reasoning…” (62). The flip…