Essays on Sigmund Freud

“Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy”. A group of schoolboys who were dropped on an island to fend for themselves without adult supervision. A beast who crept within the forest or in depth of their soul. In…

Dreams are a never-ending source of images for creativity, art and culture, one of the most popular topics in the media and entertainment industry as well as in everyday life. Dreams can even provoke people into visiting a psychologist, as it is believed that what…

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…

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…

According to the American Psychological Association, personality refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. This essay will be examining my personality as well as comparing to two personality theorists. I will be viewing the way I act, feel, and converse….

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) left a complicated and controversial legacy regarding the clash between ethics and his pioneering work of psychoanalysis. The most ethically-controversial work of Freud was his assertion that all human actions are motivated by human sexuality. Freud postulated that actions including decision-making and…

According to Wikipedia (2018), psychosexual development is the main element of element of Freud’s psychoanalytic sexual drive theory, in which a human possesses a sexual energy called libido energy that develops in 5 stages. The first stage of psychosexual development is the Oral stage which…

Sigmund Freud was the father of psychoanalysis and introduced the world to the inner meanings of our unconscious mind. For example, Freud claimed that the unconscious mind is like an iceberg. A small part of the iceberg is shown above water, which represents the parts…