Essays on Psychologists

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A Look at The Views of Jean Piaget on Cognitive Expansion as Illustrated in The Stage Theory of Cognitive Development

2 pages / 698 words

Development is one of the most widely known perspectives on cognitive expansion. His theory includes four distinct stages in children which explain how the child constructs a mental model of its surroundings. The main goals seem to reach toward explaining the processes of how the...

Cognitive Development Jean Piaget

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Carl Jung Vs Sigmund Freud: a Comparison of Psychodynamic Theories of Personalities

2 pages / 855 words

Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung both author two separate Psychodynamic Theories of Personality. While former colleagues and even close friends at one time, differences related to their studies led to a falling out. After Jung and Freud’s split, Jung spoke about being in a suffocating...

Carl Jung Sigmund Freud

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Theories of Development: Erik Erikson and Sigmund Freud

1 page / 599 words

Both Sigmund Freud and Erik Erikson believed that personality is developed in certain fixed stages. However, Erikson disagreed with some parts of Freud’s theory of psychosexual development so he modified this theory by creating his own theory of psychosocial development. Both of these theories focus...

Erik Erikson Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud’s Influence on Erik Erikson’s Life and Theories

1 page / 277 words

Erik Ericson was a psychologist who was heavily influenced by another doctor named Sigmund Freud. While Freud spoke from a psychosexual perspective, Erikson was a little different and spoke about the psychosocial stages. He speaks the super ego and id of a human, certain crisis...

Erik Erikson Sigmund Freud

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Analyzing The Fear of Incomplete Scale According to Erik Erikson

4 pages / 1797 words

Fluctuating Fears of Incompetence Erik Erikson developed the idea of competence as a result of adequately learning to cope with the environment through industriousness and inferiority. The Fear of Appearing Incompetent Scale was published in the 1970’s to assess how well this crisis was handled...

Erik Erikson

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Freud's Ideas About Sexual Deviance in Homes' Music of Tourching

5 pages / 2154 words

Stereotypes and presumptions about sex have always permeated American culture and society. From taboos to perversions to fetishes, sex and the things that come with it; relationships, marriages, and all else, have been fraught with misunderstanding. For most of history, human sexuality remained an unexplored...

Human Sexuality Sigmund Freud

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The Uncanny and Diagnosis of Mr. Ripley: a Freudian Approach

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Patricia Highsmith, the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, portrays a protagonist on the precipice of insanity. Mr. Ripley shows many qualities of a person with borderline personality disorder, or more commonly called: a psychopath. A book titled, The Mask of Sanity by Hervey Cleckley,...

Novel Sigmund Freud The Uncanny

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Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory Vs Eric Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory

2 pages / 836 words

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...

Jean Piaget Psychoanalytic Theory

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It Ain’t No Sin: Carter’s Response to Freud’s Views of Sex

6 pages / 2727 words

Throughout her body of work, Angela Carter continuously twists and transforms conventional ideas. Whether Carter places a feminist spin on traditional stories or challenges conventional thought by raising questions, her writing reveals innovative insights. Her last novel, Wise Children, is no exception. In this novel,...

Human Sexual Behavior Sigmund Freud

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Venus in Furs and Freud's Theory of Masochism

6 pages / 2572 words

Within Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch’s novel, Venus in Furs, it is possible to see several aspects of Freud’s proposals about the male and female masochistic fantasies, as well as some congruities with masochistic theories from more modern psychologists. The protagonist of the story masculinizes his aggressor,...

Novel Sigmund Freud

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The Effect of Freud’s Theory of Psychoanalysis on Literary Criticism

5 pages / 2211 words

Sigmund Freud, as a nineteenth century neurologist, intricately studied the workings of the human mind, leading him to develop a controversial theory termed psychoanalysis. He differentiated between that which we knowingly do and think, and what that which we unconsciously repress, constructing a model of...

Sigmund Freud

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Applying Freud’s Approach to The Brothers Karamazov

7 pages / 3226 words

When reading a book as brilliant as The Brother’s Karamazov, one wonders where Dostoevsky’s inspiration came from. According to Sigmund Freud, the novel must not be studied as a fiction but as a science, that being psychology. It seems that the innermost thoughts of Dostoevsky...

Lying Sigmund Freud The Brothers Karamazov

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H. D. Lawrence's Works Through The Eyes of Sigmund Freud

2 pages / 1042 words

A mother is arguably the most important figure in a child’s life, especially during his or her developmental stages. However, too much love, especially while a child is learning to bond, has the potential to create a mother complex and permanently damage a child’s psyche....

Sigmund Freud Sons and Lovers

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Dive into The Daughters Mind: Freud and Dora Relationship

6 pages / 2591 words

Sigmund Freud represents an extremely rare breed of literary genius. His ability to delve into the human subconscious and extrapolate meaning from the apparently nonsensical gives his works an exploratory, constantly twisting feel that finds its own place in the history of literature. In particular,...

Sigmund Freud

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Civilization and Its Discontents: Understanding Humans' Struggle for Happiness

3 pages / 1446 words

A recurring theme throughout the novel, Civilization and Its Discontents, is the dogged mission of mankind attempting to achieve happiness, but always falling short. “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks” (Freud...

Sigmund Freud

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Freud’s "Anna O" and The Meaning of Private Theater

3 pages / 1574 words

In the case history of Anna O., Freud’s coworker Breuer makes no mention of when Anna coins the phrase “private theatre.” The abstraction reveals in itself two distinct personalities, and thus a notable self-awareness. It cannot be that in the midst of a daydream, she...

Sigmund Freud

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Freud’s Dream Symbols and Jung’s Viewpoint

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Actually – and I confess this to you with a struggle – I have a boundless admiration for you both as a man and a researcher, and I bear you no conscious grudge… My veneration for you has something of a “religious” crush. Made-to-order essay...

Sigmund Freud

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Freud’s Civilization and Its Discontents as a Pragmatic Work

7 pages / 3407 words

Civilization and its Discontents, is, in great part, a philosophical treatise, in which Freud tries to replace a metaphysical, idealistic framework with a psychological one. He does so by using a performative, therapeutic style of argumentation, in which he encourages the reader to analyze philosophical...

Sigmund Freud

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The Concept of Morality in The Works of Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche

4 pages / 1957 words

Friedrich Nietzsche’s “The Genealogy of Morals” and Sigmund Freud’s “Civilization and its Discontents,” have similar goals. Both men want to expose what they see as the impediments of society on the freedom of the individual. Both attack and condemn organized religion as a disguise for...

Friedrich Nietzsche Sigmund Freud