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Once again, there are no signs of emotion or grief to be found, and all that was driving him was his sexual instinctive impulses. Once again, this concept falls under Freud’s views of the human beings instinctual creatures driven by our sexual desires. According to Joan Riviere, Freud believes that one of our two Basic instincts is the sexual instinct, which is not only the inhibited sexual instinct, but it’s also the self-preservation instinct (37). According to James Strachey, Freud thinks the self-preservation instinct is appointed to our ego, which takes control over the Id’s demands/ instincts, by deciding whether they should be able to receive satisfaction (15). When making decisions though, the ego is a very submissive slave to the Id, and it is tempted by its needs often (Costigan 234). This to me says that the ego, more times than not, gives in to the Ids demand, which defines Meursault’s mannerisms perfectly.

Personality is a concept that will continue to studied and improved upon. Theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl G. Jung, Alfred Adler, Karen Horney, Anna Freud, and Heinz Hartmann and several others have contributed significant ideas to the study of personality and have had impacts on our current approaches. The purpose of this paper is to compare two sources of the motivations concerning why people behave the way they do. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic approach will be discussed and compared to the approach of neo-analyst Karen Horney. Karen Horney claimed that psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts and she offered a uniquely feminist perspective for her time that disputed the Freudian theory of penis envy.

Above all, his theme was curiosity about the recesses of other men’s and women’s beings. About this theme he was always ambivalent [my italics], for he knew that his success as a writer depended upon his keen psychological analysis of people he met, while he could never forget that invasion of the sanctity of another’s personality may harden the heart even as it enriches the mind (548).

Freud’s theory of personality examined the interplay between the primitive, instinctual urges—the ‘id’; the practical and rational ‘ego’; and the morally attuned ‘superego’; ‘object relations’ refer to the "object" of an instinct”, which is “the agent through which the instinctual aim is achieved”—most often a person and, according to Freud, most often the mother (Ainsworth 1969, p. 1). The psychosexual development theory that Freud launched reduces our behaviour to mechanistic responses to an instinctive need for pleasure fueled by the ‘libido’ and barriers or distortions to the gratification of the libido at various delineated stages of development were responsible for later problems in life (Kail & Zolner 2012, p. 5). Erik Erikson later added depth to the approach by including more humanistic elements to Freud’s stages and including more periods of development (p.

The main characters go through character development in the novel, maturing in both their thoughts and state of mind. After facing the intense guilt from thinking that her uncle was going to be caught by the Japanese government, Sun-hee makes sure to not jump to conclusions: “Tae-yul was going to be a kamikaze...But maybe I was wrong. Remember Tomo-remember Uncle. I’d been so sure, and had made a terrible mistake. Don’t make a mistake this time” (Park 143). After her uncle had run away because of her misinterpretation of a warning, Sun-hee had blamed herself, not trusting anything she thought. Instead of completely discrediting her thoughts, she only warned herself to think it through more. Her careful mindset allowed her to confirm her Korean identity and that her culture had to be protected. This maturity gave her the freedom in knowing her thoughts about her culture were well-thought-out. Tae-yul’s growth is evident by his body language and reactions to certain events. Near the beginning of the story, he is

At the end of the story, Lae Choo is finally granted the paperwork to collect her son after ten harrowing months. However, her expectations of a perfect reunion would soon be crushed. As the caretaker walks Lae Choo to Kim, she discusses his behaviors at the mission nursery school. She mentioned how difficult he was to manage at first, but how “’children so soon forget, and after a month he seemed quite at home and played around as bright and happy as a bird’” (Far 1727). With this change of behavior, Far draws a parallel between Kim and the American rejection of Chinese culture. His difficult behavior when he arrived at the mission nursery could be seen as his retainment of Chinese culture. However, at the end, he is happy and is compared to a bright and

The main themes in this novel are family and friendship. For Liang it is the monkey man, for Jung it is Frank Yuen, and for Sekky it is his grandmother. For Chinese-Canadians in the 1930s and 40s, family is more than blood ties, close

It becomes a hobby of his, and he realizes his homosexuality when he starts to have feelings for his coach, Frank. He compares Frank to the sun later in the book, which suggests that he could have feelings for Frank, because Jung-Sum is supposedly the moon. Jung- Sum has an internal struggle because he does not want to jeopardize his relationship with his newer family by coming out as being gay, because of the fear that he will not be accepted. Jung-Sum does try to fit the conventional masculinity of his time, most notably in his idolization of both Joe Louis and Frank Yuen.Therefore, in old China, the love between two males was not allow. The most important thing of a man was to continue his family 's bloodline and their last name. Two man cannot have babies, and in the elders ' consideration, that violates the nature fertility rules. Therefore, Jung-Sum 's loving was not allowed in old China.

The narrator doesn’t want to marry his girlfriend Kim at the time. The narrator thinks “The whole idea of marriage makes me want to pull a dry cleaning bag over my head”(XXX). Stating “maybe I’m just a typical guy, don’t want to pay for the cow if I can get the milk for free”(XXX). Wanting to hold on to the past “ I miss our punk rock days, Kim and me and our loser friends playing in bands, hawking spit at guys in BMWs, shooting drugs… and living in basements with anarchy tattoos poking through the rips in our clothing”(XXX). Unaware that Kim is having an affair with a cavemen in the basement, where she also spends a lot of her time in. Kim got tired of waiting for the narrator to man up. Kim finally had enough, having no choice but to leave him. The narrator was left having no knowledge, understanding on what happened to his

Irish poet Oscar Wilde once said, "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. " In "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy, the reader goes through the motions of Ilych's death and learns that Ivan Ilych did not live a meaningful life. Ilych did not live a meaningful life because he has no real friends, his marriage lacks love, and he only lives for status.

Ninh’s novel jumps between flashbacks of the war and Kien’s love affairs, in particular one with his childhood sweetheart Phuong. Ninh uses the reoccurring theme of Kien’s love, or loss of love, as a metaphor for the impact the war had on the Vietnamese people. The original title of the novel is actually The Destiny of Love. Kien likens the war to a soldiers love saying, “The sorrow of war inside a soldier’s heart was in a strange way similar to the sorrow of love. It was a kind of nostalgia…It was a sadness, a missing, a pain which could send one soaring back into the past” (Ninh, 94). Kien does find himself often reminiscing of his young innocent love with Phuong. The end of the novel focuses

A person may search their whole life for love. Some are lucky enough to find the perfect someone, and some are not. The one’s who are not as lucky can sometimes create their own idea of their ideal partner, but never actually find them. In D.H. Hwang’s play M. Butterfly, a man by the name of Gallimard creates his own idea of the perfect partner. He falls in love with a woman by the name of Song, who turns out to be not what he expected. Song is actuality a Chinese spy disguised as a woman. Hwang illustrates in the play M. Butterfly, people are not always who they perceive to be. Through Gallimards love for song, his portrayal for the East and West, and Gallimards obsession with

In modern day Beijing the movie Shower from 1999 represents one man’s conflict between his modern way of life and that of his traditional father’s lifestyle. Da Ming is the main character who ran away from his home of Beijing south to Shenzhen to get rich and find a modern wife. The beginning of the movie displays a man being given a shower by a machine. This shower scene symbolizes the fast pace way of modern life where everything is automated and time is essentially money. This is different from the ancient way of life where it was ritual like to take a bath.

Another significant place is boutique “Paris” that sells U.S. and Western Europe cosmetics and accessories. Before working at the boutique shop, she was too timid to say the word “kiss.” McHugh says, “Tellingly the film imbricates her consequent exposure to sexuality outside the traditional familial structure with more generalized representations of South Korean culture’s complicated encounter with the West” (11). After Son-young gained recognition and become a modern woman with western clothes, her behavior is started changing as an active woman. She visits Chun-ho to learn how to dancing, and asks the love. Also, she easily makes the customer as a date partner. All these things represent pessimistic features of women’s entry of public affairs.

Han Kang’s use of comparison between two closely related but very different characters demonstrates society’s definition of a dutiful wife. Unable to withstand the embarrassment of having a wife he is not proud of, he leaves her. Han Kang used the sense of pressure to depict not only the public opinion, but also the force that drives Mr. Cheong’s actions.