Essays on Psychoanalytic Theory

Unlike most psychotherapists of his day, Viktor Frankl was a believer in the importance of finding a meaning for one’s life. He saw people as individuals, as total packages—products of mind, soul, and surroundings—rather than simply as products of genetics. He emphasized heavily the importance...

Most would say that Victor’s issue was that he had daddy issues. But why? Victor’s father Alphonse is a respectable and loving man, but has always felt as if he didn’t belong in his family and especially felt rejected by his father Alphonse. Victor’s interests...

Protagonists in most of Robert Browning’s monologues are psychologically twisted individuals, and Porphyria’s Lover is arguably the one with a psychoanalytic perspective. This essay seeks to discuss and apply Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory to the poem. To start with, there is a sharp contrast between...

Advertisements have now become a less aggressive version of propaganda. The reason for this is the relationship that developed between Sigmund Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays. In the movie titled, The Century of the Self, we learn about how Bernays took the ideas of...

The structural portion of Psychoanalytic theory by Sigmund Freud, attempts to explain how the unconscious mind function with three distinct components, namely id, ego and superego and how the conflict between two of the three component could give rise to Marilyn’s behaviours when her phobia...

Erik Erikson’s was a follower of Jean Piaget and his work/theory was inspired by Piaget and with the work he saw Piaget did, Erikson wanted to expand his theory, but with a different focus. Erik Erikson came up with the Psychosocial Theory and is based...

The intention of this paper is to analyze my personality development by incorporating four major concepts of: Adler’s Family Constellation, Jung Psychoanalytic Theory: Pychetypes Mccrae and Costa’s “Five Factor Theory”, and Allport’s Six characteristics of a mature healthy personality respectively (Cloninger, 2019). These four concepts...

Dr. Barbara LoFrisco, a professor at the University of South Florida, once said, “If you understand why something is important, not only will you be more motivated to understand it, but you will also be able to put your new knowledge into proper context” (LoFrisco,...

Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory Jean considered himself a genetic epistemologist that focus on “How we come to know.” Piaget theory proposed by various stages of a child where transition from one stage to the other follows a sequence. While some of his ideas have...

As most of us already know, dance is a very expressive form of art. One can find the inspiration for a choreography everywhere. Still, the most important parts of a dance are its meaning, its influence on the audience and the message that it tries...