Unconscious mind

Psychoanalytic Criticism in use with Laura and Carmilla. As the story unfolds Fanu’s slowly reveals more about Carmilla and Laura and we get a better understanding of the girls secret unconscious desires and anxieties. Through Freud’s Psychoanalytic Criticism the story takes on deeper meaning, from the conscious to the unconscious. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla explores the unresolved emotions, guilts, and ambivalences of two young girls who’s desires for each other grow fonder. At the beginning…

The super ego theory has to do with our morals and principles of life. With the combination of these three theoretical concepts, Freud believed this is what made up each of our personalities. Provided these concepts, Freud believed that the unconscious mind is what drove behaviors. However, our conscious is where we tend to store everything that is seen or known. He explained that the ego is the mediator…

the beginning of the 20th century. The psychoanalytic theory states that childhood experiences and unconscious desires influence behaviour. Personality has urges, believes, memories, instincts and drives that people are not always aware of and they make up this unconscious. The major driving forces behind it is the concept of libido. Libido is natural energy source that fuels the mechanisms of the mind and when this libidinous energy is stuck or fixated at various stages of psychosexual…

Sigmund Freud, inventor of psychoanalysis used for the treatment of mental illness and neurosis, mentions that the human mind is comprised of the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious, which continue to control us daily. Behind these three components of the mind is the battle between the unconscious id being driven by pleasure, the superego, which is the instinctive ethical choice, and the ego aiming to please both elements. William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, depicts three…

Austria and years after to England. Sigmund Freud was known for connecting psychological issues with sexual issues. Freud demonstrated a broad perspective on things involving dreams, religion, and cultural artifacts. He focused on different states of the mind, such as unconsciousness. Freud relied on a local sexual repression issue to create theories about human behavior all together. Although many people would agree that Sigmund Freud’s theories are controversial, he is said to be one of the…

“Dreaming is the communication between our conscious mind and our unconscious mind, helping people create wholeness” (Tartakovsky). Our dreams are unconscious thoughts that contain much more than just abstract, meaningless images. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, or stage two in the sleep cycle, is when most dreaming occurs (Lewis xvii). REM sleep can occur up to five times per night, though this sleep is affected by drugs, alcohol, and caffeine. This sleep is necessary to the sleep cycle and…

part of what the psychoanalytic criticism explores, and Gatsby’s actions and words can be broken down and further analyzed into something deeper. Freud states that although everyone has three levels of consciousness, they operate through their unconscious motives the most. For example, Gatsby’s main motives are shame, grief, denial, and fear. Gatsby’s sumptuous displays of wealth actually showcase a defence…

decision making occurs unconsciously or consciously. Dijksterhuis (2004) define conscious thought to be a mental state which surrounds awareness; while unconscious thought, a reasoning which occurs while conscious attention is allocated elsewhere (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006). The deliberation-without-attention effect explains that unconscious processes are adequately suited for optimal decision making, as it is able to integrate large amounts of information; in comparison to consciousness…

and the humanistic perspective, which has two theorists with interesting approaches, Abraham Maslow (1908- 1970) and Carl Rogers (1902- 1987). Humanism is referred to as the ‘third- force’ within psychology, it focusses’ on the consciousness of the mind, the other two being behaviourism and Freudianism, this term was named by Maslow, it looks at not only people with ‘mental health issues’, but also healthy individuals, (Gross and McIlveen, 1999). The other approaches were simply rejected,…

(2012), “Myths often seem to address common questions, questions that are likely to arise in any human society” (p. 106). A psychoanalytical approach significantly answers the arising questions of the “collective unconscious” despite the belief that “this idea [of the collective unconscious] tends to be dressed up in a rather romantic, mystical way” (Dowden, 1992, p. 22). Certain opposing views of Ken Dowden on the Freudian school of interpretation can be refuted efficiently when this…