Essays about: "soul and psyche"

Found 2 essays containing the words soul and psyche.

1. 1. The split human mind and the portrayal of good and evil in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde & Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Caroline Hedlund; [2016]
   Keywords : Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; Robert Louis Stevenson; Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde; Freud; psychology; split human mind; unconscious; good and evil; dualism; Victorian society; morality; the self; soul and psyche; religion.; Languages and Literatures;

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3. 2. To Peer Into The Abyss : a psychoanalytical analysis of edgar allan poe's the imp of the perverse

   University essay from Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Fredrik Åslund; [2012]
   Keywords : edgar allan poe; psychoanalytic; literal studies; psychoanalytical literal theory;

   Abstract : This essay is based on the premise of psychoanalytical literal theory through a perspective of the author-imprint, or the mirroring neural-effect of the author as an external persona - a force influencing, constructing and enforcing traits, intertextual messages and sublime meanings of the subconscious in the primary text material – the short story Imp of the Perverse, published by Edgar Allan Poe in 1845. The aim is to view this short story in light of Poe's empirically documented destructive personality, proposing that the message of the story, in itself, is more than simply a tale, but part of a larger contextual idea sprung from the pained soul of the author. READ MORE