Sigmund Freud And The Grinch

Although a sociologist can look at Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch that Stole Christmas in all three of the major theoretical perspectives, the main one expressed is symbolic interactionism. The Grinch that Stole Christmas is a story about a “who” who was not considered to be part of their “whoville” society due to the fact that he not only looked different from the rest of the people, but he acted in different ways than their norms. The story is merely about how the Grinch hates the “whos,” because of how they treated him; until, a little girl named Cindy Lou Who gains a curiosity for the Grinch and wants to give him another chance to be a part of their society. Throughout the story both of the main characters develop a deep connection to each other. Upon viewing the story from a symbolic interaction perspective view, I discovered how the story thematically symbolizes an important part of Christmas by giving people another chance; meanwhile, focusing on the relationship between the main two characters help them regain faith, and while the setting symbolizes their society’s purpose.

“The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason. It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were to tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.” (Seuss).

As the story moves along Sam out the elder in different situations to see if he would eat the green eggs and ham, but to Sam’s dismay the elder wouldn’t. Finally after trying and trying and trying Sam gets the elder to try the Green eggs and ham. One of the most popular stories by Dr. Seuss is the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This story became so popular that Universal Studios not only picket it up for a movie, but also a whole theme for their Christmas season theme park. In this story the Grinch loathes Christmas and the who’s with every fiber of his being. The Grinch presents himself as socially cut off from the who’s down in whoville. He lives on top of Mt. Crumpit with his dog Max. All of this hate is because his heart is two sizes too small (and this time he’ll keep it off). He finally had enough of the Who’s bangboozaling and clangclangaling so he devised a plan to steal Christmas. After Santa Clause came and delivered all the presents to the houses he would sneak in, in his Santa Clause suit and steal every present, every light, every decoration, every tree, and all of the food for the feast. He even stole the roast beast! He would empty the houses one by one and he didn’t leave anything. Not even a crumb big enough for a mouse. So as he got done with emptying the houses and was about to dump everything over Crumpit he heard a noise, a weird

The next perspective the Grinch demonstrates is humanistic. Being humanistic means you have the freedom to change your behavior. Following this concept, you could have something called unconditional positive regard which is a basic acceptance of someone no matter what they do or say. The Grinch gave a good example of this when he found it alright to raid Whoville and take everything they have; right after he did this he felt great about himself which demonstrates his strong unconditional positive regard for himself. Another concept he showed was his strong self-actualization which is the growth of an individual toward fulfilling higher needs. The Grinch showed this when he returned everything to Whoville and his heart grew three sizes

Charles Dickens, renowned social critic and celebrated author of the Victorian Era. In his most cherished yuletide novella, Dickens’ explores the idea of transformation and man’s ability to redeem himself. By observing Scrooge’s conversion from misanthrope to humanitarian, the reader can understand that Scrooge is only able to transform because of the ghost’s intervention. Each spirit’s visit secures a part of Scrooge’s developing social conscience. As the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come exits the narrative, the initial antagonist of the novella, Ebenezer Scrooge, does transform into “as good

To illustrate, a background of the Grinch, he was a resentful individual who look to be in his 40’s who lived on a snowy called Mount Crumpits in the town of Whoville. In the film it depicts him spending a lot of time alone in the cave on the mountain reflecting depressed mood and his only social contact being his dog, named Max. He was abandoned as a child and was

The world at times either ignores outcast and misfits or makes fun of them. Tim Burton likes the idea of characters who do not fit in but have a significant impact on their world. In Burton's films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands, each character has a special personality that sets them apart from the rest. Burton uses lighting and color in his films to prove that no one needs to flow with society in order to be pleased and comfortable with who they are.

“Strength lies in differences’ not similarities.” (Stephen Covey) Evidently this is not believed to be the case in the society of Tim Burton’s “Edward Scissorhands”. It is undoubtedly clear to anyone who has watched the film that it is absolutely jam-packed with critiques on society, on how it runs and how it treats those who do not fit in. A few of the comments that Burton makes that stick out the most include; firstly that society takes things that are different, uses them and throws them away once they’re no longer useful.

Every director uses certain stylistic techniques that distinguishes them from their rivals in the film industry. They use these traits to make their films appealing to certain audiences. Tim Burton incorporates mediocre life throughout his films, the misinterpreted character archetype, as well as the theme of dying or distressed dogs. All of these traits placed together harmonize to give a terrifying and dark mood while still incorporating a child like mentality. Tim Burton uses his own sense of style to create setting elements that give the audience an eerie and out of place feeling.

In the film “Edward Scissorhands” directed by Tim Burton an important scene is the opening scene. This essay will describe the scene where Peg meets Edward (played by Johnny Depp) and explain how film techniques were used in the scene to help understand us why it was important. This scene uses film techniques to show Peg’s character, show how alone and isolated Edward was and to show the theme of not judgong people by appearances. In the scene where Peg meets Edward we see Peg in her perfect pastel neighbourhood inside her lemon beetle car.

The title of the movie “Edward Scissorhands,” labels Edward by his disability. Labeling draws negative attention on the person and makes a people see them based on their disability which dehumanizes them. Kim’s boyfriend, Jim, used labeling to put down Edward when he felt threatened by him. Jim tried to show Edward that he was more superior by calling him, “Eddie,” which gave Edward a childlike image, or simply call him a loser and would state to Kim that he isn’t even human. At the beginning of the movie one of the male neighbours who has lost his leg, tried to relate with Edward and told him to never let anyone call him handicapped. However, once the community turned on Edward and starting seeing him as a menace, this man ironically called Edward a cripple which labeled him in negative light. Although, the psychologist that came into the story later on evaluated Edward and put a more professional label toward his disability rather than cripple, he stated that, “the years spent in isolation have not equipped him with the tools necessary to judge right from wrong. He 's had no context.” Later on in the conversation though the psychologist calls him a “character” rather than a person which always devalues Edward.

I have chosen to write my Case Study paper on Edward Gein from the Psychodynamic theoretical perspective. I believe that his behavior is a perfect case for the psychodynamic perspective because of the family dynamic in his home. These circumstances led to the actions that would become the inspiration for many books and movie characters because of the oddity and extreme nature of his human interactions.

The theory that was chosen to be represented on the t-shirt design was the theory of repression by Sigmund Freud as it explains individual human behaviour effectively. Freud was not the first person to formulate the idea that the brain is divided into the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious, however, he did popularize the idea. Our conscious mind contains the thoughts that we are aware of and our unconscious mind contains information that we don't know about. For example, "James has just started a new relationship with a woman he met at school. While talking to her one afternoon, he accidentally calls her by his ex-girlfriend's name" (Cherry). Though the mistake is unintentional, it reveals the existence of the unconscious mind. While Freud was

Sigmund Freud's revolutionary ideas have set the standard for modern psychoanalysis in which students of psychology can learn from his ideas spread from the field of medicine to daily living. His studies in areas such as unconsciousness, dreams, sexuality, the Oedipus complex, and sexual maladjustments laid the foundation for future studies. In result, better understanding of the small things, which shape our lives.

The fact people sometimes repress specific information cannot be denied, as was well articulated by Sigmund Freud. However, psychologists tend to have different opinions on what makes people repress info. Some scholars argue that repression occurs because of cognitive, emotional motives and social motives. Sigmund Freud argued that psychological repression happens because there are external forces that prevented people from actively moving memories from the unconscious mind to the conscious mind (Boag, 2007). The approach given by Freud is different from that taken by Jennifer Freyd who argued that people repression memories for social reasons. Most of the people, according to Freyd, suppression certain memories because