Essays on Psychoanalysis

Freud developed the concept of the uncanny in the early 1900’s. He wanted to investigate the kind of creeping horror, that deviates from the standard fight or flight response to a scary situation. The word ‘uncanny’ is derived from the German word, unheimliche. Unheimliche is…

In German, the word uncanny translates to unheimlich which means unhomely. However, Sigmund Freud’s definition of this word is one that is much more complex. In his essay The Uncanny, Freud writes “the uncanny is that class of the frightening which leads back to what…

Every person understands the feeling of underlying worry and fear without being able to pinpoint the source. Humans were designed to have emotions that they can not decipher. There was once a time that no one knew how one thought nor did they ask the…

The author often uses dreams and thought as instruments in her novel, to help make readers clear about the unconscious condition of the mind of the characters. The psychological effects of all the major characters in the novel are distinct. The twins’s mother constantly dreams…

Freud was the pioneer of Psychoanalysis and he laid the grounds of unconscious mental activity. He rigorously studied psychoanalysis for the next forty years of his life. He left a legacy behind unmatched by any other, he poised his graceful thoughts of the mind, dream…

Hypothesis American Beauty represents some of the theories that originated from psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud and developments made by Jacques Lacan.I will use the theories of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan to psychoanalyse the film, American Beauty (1999).The main focus of the psychoanalysis will surround the…

Sigmund Freud is mostly associated with the psychoanalytic theory of personality in which he predicted that an individual’s personality develops through a number of stages and each of these stages is underpinned by some internal conflicts. The theory makes a basic presumption that human behavior…

Psychoanalytic Lens Death of a Salesman is the epitome of the American Dream gone wrong. Willy Loman is the average family salesman whose life spirals out of control. We are able to see all of Willy’s flaws throughout the frequent flashbacks shown in Arthur Miller’s…

Bad dreams and Islam According to Freud and psychoanalysis, the reason of your nightmares should be hidden in your subconscious or in your childhood. However, I’m not a Freud’s follower, therefore I won’t write here about that. Nightmares have many triggers. Probably you are not…

What the majority of us would consider to be rational, expected, and proper behavior may not be so intuitive to someone who suffers from psychopathy. When we consider the building blocks of what our moral stances are, there are often rational reasons behind many of…