Essays about: "Sigmund Freud"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 35 essays containing the words Sigmund Freud.

  1. 11. The Defense Mechanisms of Moll Flanders : A Psychoanalytical Essay

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

    Author : Tina Jakobsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Moll Flanders; Literature; Psychoanalysis; Freud; Lacan; Defense Mechanisms;

    Abstract : The essay analyzes how and why Moll Flanders’s childhood created mental and emotional patterns that would come to shape her personality and affect her behavior. The analysis will use psychoanalytical theories by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to discern what defense mechanisms and desires Moll developed in childhood and how these presented themselves throughout her life. READ MORE

  3. 12. The Significance of the Unconscious : A Literary Study of Fear Factors and Psychological Blockings in the Harry Potter Series

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Author : Ida Swärd; [2020]
    Keywords : Harry Potter; fear; psychoanalytical criticism; the unconscious;

    Abstract : This essay examines various fears presented in the Harry Potter series along with the psychological blockings connected to each fear. Furthermore, this study examines whether the effect of the characters’ actions and behaviours in situations that frightens them can simulate strategies of managing fears in real-life situations as well. READ MORE

  4. 13. Make a man out of a monkey:  Psychosexual development of Sun Wukong

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Kinesiska

    Author : Besha Saied; [2020]
    Keywords : Sun Wukong; The Journey to the West; Sigmund Freud; Psychoanalysis; Psychosexual Development.; 孙悟空，西游记，西格蒙德·弗洛伊德，精神分析学，性心理发展。;

    Abstract : 西游记是明代吴承恩所攥写的。西游记的主角是孙悟空。孙悟空出生时，具有超自然力量，但是一直很叛逆。因为孙悟空对天堂犯了大错，所以他受到惩罚，他必须帮助玄奘去印度取经回中国。整个旅程中，孙悟空和朝圣者经历八十一场灾难，也让孙悟空变成了一个更好的人。这篇论文应用西格蒙德·弗洛伊德的性心理發展分析为什么孙悟空在朝圣中，行为和性格变的更好。孙悟空在生命的早期阶段发展了固着，通过一直吃达到自我享乐。之后，孙悟空找到了他的阳具，如意金箍棒，孙悟空一直用如意金箍棒试图征服。孙悟空也开始仿效他的父亲形象，玉皇大帝。因为孙悟空违反玉皇大帝的法律，玉皇大帝试图处决孙悟空，但是失败了。所以，孙悟空认为强的人是高于法律的。然而只有佛陀能给孙悟空惩罚，把孙悟空放在五阶山下。孙悟空在五阶山下五百年以后，观音委任孙悟空保护玄奘去印度取经。孙悟空在玄奘身上找到了一位父亲形象，在观音身上找到了一位母亲形象。孙悟空模仿玄奘不使用他的阳具，如意金箍棒试图征服。反而，孙悟空用如意金箍棒做好事，不伤人。 .. READ MORE

  5. 14. Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten : Uncanny Space in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2020]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Uncanny; Unheimlich; Space; Mythology; Lazarus; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Marie-Laure Ryan; Yi-Fu Tuan; Julia Kristeva;

    Abstract : Sylvia Plath’s poetry continues to receive considerable attention from a variety of groups and has been the target for such diverse critical approaches as Feminism, Ecocriticism, and Marxism, to name but a few. My paper focuses on a less investigated area of her poems: Space, and more specifically uncanny space in her later poetry. READ MORE

  6. 15. Unsubstantial Territories : Nomadic Subjectivity as Criticism of Psychoanalysis in Virginia Woolf's The Waves

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Andrey Belov; [2019]
    Keywords : Virginia Woolf; The Waves; Jacques Lacan; Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; Rosi Braidotti; psychoanalysis; subjectivity; nomadic subjectivity;

    Abstract : This essay looks at subjectivity in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves employing a psychoanalytic approach and using the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Woolf’s relation to the theories of her contemporary Sigmund Freud was unclear. READ MORE