Carl Stumpf

Sigmund Freud, a world-renowned psychologist, best known for his work revolving around psychoanalytical psychology and the unconscious, came up with an idea called the “return of the repressed”. This idea details that individuals often lodge antisocial desires and impulses deep within our unconsciousness. Gail Hornstein calls these hidden desires and impulses “offending material”. In the case of Harlan Ellison’s short gothic story, “Shattered Like a Glass Goblin”, these materials are the…

The psychologist Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson were very well known and so was their theories of development. Freud had a psychosexual theory of development and Erikson had a psychosocial theory development. Even though Erikson was influenced by Freud's ideas and theories, Erikson theory was different in a significant number of ways.They both believed that personality develops in a number of predetermined stages. Freud’s theory was psychosexual stages, while Erikson’s theory emphasizes the…

LAP #2 Dreaming is an unknown phenomenon where illusions are materialized from incidents, beliefs, emotions, sensations and ideas. The deep rooted emotions and experiences surface from the soul in the rem of sleep. These disambiguations are usually seen as a bridge between an absolute reality and a distorted fabrication of the mind, however dreams have been perceived as a way of communication between a spiritual being and its subject in the unknown realm of mind. Sometimes these illusions may…

The most relevant early contributions to the psychological aspect of the field were made by Sigmund Freud. Freud may truly be considered the father of the field of psychology around the world with his creation of the Psychoanalytical approach. Freud stated that the human mind is in a constant battle between the childish, selfish side of our mind and the benevolent moral self. When we as an individual have difficulty reconciling between the two, Humans will typically employ one or more of the…

I found the theories based on traits and Freud's theory of psychosexual development the most interesting. I found the five-factor model of personality interesting because it is made up of five broad traits and efficiently describes how they contribute to a person’s personality; it is not limited or complex, making it easier to understand and see the correlations. Freud’s theory proposed an interesting perspective on personality. He describes personality as having three sides to it: id—present at…

Psychological perspectives vary and develop over time; early models provide foundations for new perspectives concerning the workings of the psyche: functionality, structures, origin of behaviors, and procedures for treatment. In consideration of the aforementioned psychological aspects, one must also deliberate the theory epoch. Therefore, engineering, transportation, testing equipment, and instruments, ethical, legal, and cultural considerations, within theorist’s lives and treatment…

Dr. Freeman was an idealist doctor hungry for fame who would champion the century’s most infamous procedure the lobotomy. He wanted to solve all of the problems of psychiatry and he wanted to do it fast. The lesson here is not how man can go off the rails but how science can go off the rails. Elina was the first patient to undergo the procedure that the doctor had only perfected weeks before he called it transorbital lobotomy. In a transorbital lobotomy, Freeman would first have the patient…

Nonsense Theory Some cultures, like the urban Guadalcanaldwelling Malaitans in the Solomon Islands, think that dreams do not mean anything. They believe that there is no rhyme or reason to why we dream. The only thing a dream could do would be to merely tell interesting stories. Since people usually do not record nonsense or unimportant events or experiences, there might be a lot of cultures who believe this nonsense theory that ethnographers just do not know about (Barret 41-42). Discernment…

Freud believed in the expression of language to help reveal the nature of his patient's dreams. He used the term 'dream-work' to describe the ways in which dreams materialize from the unconscious and argued that dreams reflect desires (primarily sexual) which are supressed by the superego in order for the ego to develop as a social individual. There are instances however, when desires often escape from the unconscious and are revealed through slips of the tongue or within dreams themselves. The…

The Conscious and Unconscious Mind in A Tale of Two Cities Just as it was “the best of times and the worst of times” in pre-revolutionary France, Doctor Alexandre Manette had the best of personalities and the worst of personalities. In the novel, A Tale of Two Cities, Sigmund Freud’s theories of the conscious and unconscious mind can be applied to Dr. Alexandre Manette in order to expose an understanding of the spoken and unspoken desires of the human mind. Dr. Manette's ceaseless inner conflict…