Carl Brashear

What we believe to be impossible to be achieved through reality is often projected in the unconscious. Freud theorized that our minds repressed desires that could summon emotions such as guilt or shame, which could lead to what is called wish fulfillment through dreams, hallucinations, or phases of neurosis. Experiences of intense dream sequences that involve sexual relations with family members, or homicide carried out by the individual or others, are examples of wish fulfillment dreams. Said dreams

In Law Enforcement there is a term called “Contagious shooting” this is has been described as a sociological phenomenon observed in military and police Officers in the United States, in which one person firing on a target can induce others to do the same, without any reason why. Often the subsequent shooters will not know why they are firing. This is because the Officers get caught up in the moment. This is observed quite frequently in new officers, but has happened in veteran officers as well.

Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is a very complex text presented in three detailed sections. The first section is an analysis of sovereignty, introducing it through Schmitt’s definition of sovereignty as being the one who decides on the exception. The second section is a survey of the idea of Homo Sacer: the person who cannot be sacrificed, but who can be killed. The final section then illustrates the role of the Auschwitz camp, which is known for its brutal murders and

Martin Seligman: Well the state of psychoanalysis wouldn’t exactly put it on a pedestal to measure my work against… Sigmund Freud: What are you proposing? Is Psychoanalysis not the height of academia in your time? Martin Seligman: Only if the height of academia includes the isolation of most psychoanalytic ideas as well as psychoanalysis losing its place within psychiatric education (Hoffman 2010). A lot of psychoanalysis has gone unacknowledged in my era, outside of psychology within pop culture

Suttree, the title character is constantly evolving throughout adulthood. We first meet Suttree while he is in prison, a place where he has major conflicts with his inner self. By the end of his journey, Suttree is more unified and has found inner peace. Carl Jung is an analytical psychologist who has many theories based on the human unconscious. Jung’s premier psychological theory of archetypes where every person falls into different archetypes help to identify Suttree. Suttree falls into three different

It was during the World Championships Games which was held in Tokyo, Japan in 1991. The 100m mens finals was about to take place. There certainly was a cheerful festive atmosphere that late evening in Tokyo. The sun was just about to set. A few thousand miles away, life however was moving a little bit slower. It was early evening local time in Malaysia and schools in the afternoon session were going on as usual. Where I come from, schools are held in two sessions - morning and afternoon sessions

I enjoyed reading your interview with your Grandmother, she sounds so much like my Grandmother. How she grew up also sounds a lot like how I grew up, just different times. We didn’t have a lot of money but we were happy. My Mother worked her whole life and still works today, she had lots of trouble raising four children until she met my Dad who adopted us. I remember we were getting canned food delivered to our trailer at one point before she met my Dad. It all changed when my Dad found my Mom

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, is a high fantasy novel written by JRR Tolkien and published in the year 1937. Spanning a proper 300 pages it contains an adventure of grand proportions; detailing the exploits of one Bilbo Baggins and his attempts in aiding a band of 13 dwarves to reclaim a lost treasure. Although commonly intended for a child audience, The Hobbit does include subtle hints of adult like themes and motifs such as conflict between different races and the corrupting factor of wealth

To categorize art by such vague criteria as expression and form would be difficult if it were not for the several prevailing theories presented by Tolstoy and Bell. According to Tolstoy’s theory of expression, something is art only if it successfully does the following. First, it must have been created with the intention of being art and revealed to an audience through a publicly accessible medium, even if the audience is a single individual. These mediums must be physical things such as shapes,

“Did we want to do the deal? Yes!” This case is based on adapted highlights from date-consecutive articles about Yahoo! by the following journalists, in The Times, The Sunday Times and Times Online: Suzy Jagger and Mike Harvey, along with Murad Ahmed, Amanda Andrews, Holden Frith, Jonathan Richards, Dominic Rushe , Dan Sabbagh, Christine Seib, Susan Thompson, ‘Tempus’ and John Waples 19/06/07 Jerry Yang was doing a PhD at Stanford when he and fellow-student, David Filo, created a website