Essays Tagged: "Freud"

A Comparison of Piaget, Freud, and Erikson

rest. Human development is one of the most popular areas of interest forthose who study psychology. Freud, Erikson and Piaget are all great theoristswith different ideas concerning human development. ... ds paradigmatic assumptions, learning and development, andrelationship towards educational practice.Freud is known as the father of psychology. Although some of hiswork has been dismissed, most of it ...

(6 pages) 980 6 4.3 Jun/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Che Guevara

, Spain, because of asthma. As a young child, Guevara becameinterested in reading Marx, Engels, and Freud found in his father's library.As he grew up, he watched the Spanish refugees from the Spanish ...

(2 pages) 124 1 3.9 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Central & Southamerican History

Sex-Based Generalization in Freud

In 'Boys and girls: The development of gender roles,' Beale gives usrevealing overview of Freud's personality theory. Beale point out bothstrengths and weaknesses of his answer to the questi ... t, but still leaves a chance for a reader to make upher/his own mind about whether or not to accept Freud's theory. It isrelatively easy, however, to find oneself torn between openheartedly goingalong ...

(2 pages) 67 0 3.6 Mar/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Women's Studies

Fetishism

easts), or something oddsuch as, leather, rubber, the touch of velvet. Some fetishes, as observed byFreud, may not even be visible to the other person at all. In one case a patientof Freud was obsesse ... eparing for the sexual act. Insome cases just the sight of the fetish could result in an orgasm.The Freudian view of fetishes changed over the years. His early viewstated that fetishism was a result o ...

(3 pages) 78 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

The Oedipus Complex

of love and hate.The Oedipus Complex occurs during the phallic stage, from roughly ages 3-6 years. Freud believed that during this stage boys seek genital stimulation and develop both unconscious des ... d that boys felt guilt and lurking fear that their father would punish them, such as by castration. Freud also believed that conscience and gender identity form as the child resolved the Oedipus Compl ...

(8 pages) 217 1 4.6 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Sacks vs. Freud, Different Beliefs, Different Treatments

Sacks vs. Freud: Different Beliefs, Different TreatmentsWhether Oliver Sacks had a desire to cure people suffe ... a greater understanding is reached. In contrast to Sacks' situation, then, is the system of Sigmund Freud. While we have concluded that Sacks loves the idea of studying his patients more than helping ... While we have concluded that Sacks loves the idea of studying his patients more than helping them, Freud's main purpose is to establish the problem, and then explain how he knew this and why he is ri ...

(2 pages) 78 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Depressipon

logy.Psychoanalysis is defined by Webster's Unabridged Edition Dictionary as: a method developed by Freud and others, of treating neuroses and some other disorders of the mind.When you undergo psychoa ...

(1 pages) 52 0 3.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health

Man's Evil Nature in Lord of the Flies by Golding

published in 1954 during World War 2. Comparing the characters of Jack, Ralph, Piggy and Simon with Freud's theory of id, ego and superego, one can prove that man has an underlying evil nature. The ch ... ture. The characters are represented with Jack as id, Ralph as ego, and Piggy and Simon as superego.Freud's theory of id, ego and superego influences the spheres of ones being. The id represents viole ...

(3 pages) 69 0 3.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

Conventions of Psychoanalysis in "Where are you going, Where have you been" by Joyce Carol Oates

ng, Where Have You Been" by Joyce Carol Oates is truly littered with conventions of Psychoanalysis. Freud developed a list of defense mechanisms used by the human subconscious in order to deal with is ...

(3 pages) 191 0 5.0 Sep/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Culture, Nature & Freedom: Treating Juvenile Offenders

through the ideas found in several of this semesters authors; includingT.Huxtley, Rousseau, DuBois, Freud, A.Huxtley, and Mill. The Ideals setforth by these intellectuals should be the basis for all t ... f true human values, not just thepop culture presented in the prison center.Finally, we can look at Freud. His ideas link the behaviors exhibitedto inner problems with family and society. He brings in ...

(4 pages) 116 0 3.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Marx and Freud, comparing their views of human nature

ngels discuss human nature in the context ofthe economic factors which they see as driving history. Freud, inCivilization and Its Discontents, explores human nature through hispsychological view of th ... omics, they will ultimately be able to establish a society which is notbased on economic oppression.Freud, in Civilization and Its Discontents, presents a conception ofhuman nature that differs greatl ...

(4 pages) 321 0 4.7 Mar/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Pleasure and Aggreshion. Related to Freud

Based on Freud concepts of pleasure and aggression, discuses HayIbn Yaqzan and The Island of AnimalsIt is sai ... . Our souls strive for sexual pleasureto be elevated from one degree of human happiness to another. Freud saidthat "what we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the ...satisfaction of need ... dig in our human aggression, and shows howhumanity uses civilization as a curtain to hide behind it.Freud concept of pleasure and happiness is related to Hay in only one way. Itis not in the kind of h ...

(5 pages) 90 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

This essay is an overview and analysis of Mozart's opera "Cosi fan tutte" which means, "Women are like that." It explores the relationship between men and women.

of the opera is obvious as he displays intense theory through a comical exhibition. He, even before Freud, explored the depths of human behavior. Mozart questioned the motives and morals of those arou ...

(7 pages) 164 1 4.0 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

"Lord Of The Flies" by Golding Viewing the various aspects of the island society .

ook in their portrayal, the primary characters of Jack, Ralphand Piggy are then best interpreted as Freud's very concepts of id, ego andsuperego, respectively. As the id of the island, Jack's actions ... fication needs. Indiscovering the thrill of the hunt, his pleasure drive is emphasized,purported by Freud to be the basic human need to be gratified. In much thesame way, Golding's portrayal of a hunt ...

(7 pages) 79 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding

Jonathan Swift's Real Argument. A close reading of "A modest Proposal"

God only knows from whence came Freud's theory of penis envy, but one of his more tame theories, that of 'reverse psychology', may h ...

(5 pages) 168 0 3.7 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Freud and Marx

I put my own personal spin to it in that not only did I compare Freud andMarx's viewpoints, I stated that perhaps what they saw in society was justa reflection of t ... n society was justa reflection of their own biases and personal inner feelings.Humanities AssignmentFreud and Marx it can be argued were both, as individuals,dissatisfied with their societies. Marx mo ... t can be argued were both, as individuals,dissatisfied with their societies. Marx more plainly than Freud, but Freudcan also be seen as discontent in certain aspects such as his cynical view ofhuman n ...

(4 pages) 198 0 4.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics

Of what value is the episode concerning the "Cave of Spleen" to the rest of the "Rape of the Lock"?

the state of Belinda's unconscious. Pope thus presents the issues, which were later put forward by Freud, concerning the role and importance of the unconscious. Therefore, using a Freudian theoretica ... indness of the society embodied within it. It is only possible to look at Pope in this way, using a Freudian theoretical framework. The vocabulary and imagery used also gives an insight into the unstr ...

(5 pages) 44 0 3.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Ozymandias - Power and Despair" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

To despair is one of the strongest emotions that Freud's id could possibly produce. It's an uncontrollable feeling that leads even the worthiest and ...

(2 pages) 94 0 3.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

John kennedy toole confederacy of dunces analogous to portrayal of alcohol

hol. "It calms me down, helps my nerves" ( 6 ) is known as the anxiety thesis. This is derived from Freud's work. " Freud had concluded that in times of anxiety and stress, people fall back on things ...

(5 pages) 33 0 3.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

This essay explains the eight stages that Erik Erikson proposes that everyone goes through. I have given real-life examples that has happened to me.

The best-known neo-Freudian was Erik Erikson. He formulated his own theory of personality development. He projected tha ... ent. He projected that everyone goes through psychosocial stages rather than psychosexual stages as Freud proposed. Erikson has identified eight stages of psychosocial development that each person goe ...

(8 pages) 568 3 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors