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Angela Carters, ‘Nights at the Circus,’ opens avenues to various interpretations, Most of which deal with themes based on Feminism and Magical Realism. This article deals with an essential aspect of the human psyche, ‘Individuation.’ A term coined by Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist. To comprehend Individuation in a nut shell, it is a psychological progress that involves a holistic process of one’s physical and mental growth. This process is more of a conscious progress. To attain

Doppelganger or (the double) is defined or designated as the ghost of a living person. However, it has become a popular device in since the early nineteenth century in the works of some German writers such as E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich Von Kleist In literature, it has gradually taken a profound meaning to represent not simply the double or twin, the mirror image of a character's personality, but often a kind of reversal of it, a negative image, a self which expresses all the darkness and normally

Freud’s Personality Theory in Lord of the Flies William Golding’s novel, Lord of the Flies, showcases Sigmund Freud’s personality theory. This theory states that there are three major personalities that everyone can fit into. Three characters from Lord of the Flies: Jack, Ralph, and Piggy, fit into Freud’s personalities of id, ego, and superego respectively. The id is Freud’s definition of the irrational, animalistic part of the mind ("Structure of Mind: Freud's Id, Ego, & Superego"). Jack, the lead

Santiago is the protagonist of the Alchemist. He is a sheperd from a small town and ever since he had been a child, he had wanted to know the world, He is of curious nature. The dream that changed his life is about finding the treasure near the Egyptian pyramids. He travels from Andalusia in southern Spain to the Egyptian pyramids is search of hidden treasure learning life lessons along the way. Name of Character: Alchemist Description: The Alchemist is a mysterious character and an extremely powerful

psychology major, I feed into the notion that everything has a deeper meaning and that feelings of intuition should never go under the radar. Spiritual inquiries create a division with distinct scientific interpretations. In the 19th century, Carl Jung was eager

Spiral Symbol Amplification Paper Carl Jung thought that the form of a spiral represented the idea of “eternal return” in the pattern of human thought and insisted that the archetypal symbol represented the cosmic force (Bobroff, p. 27). Various ancient cultures viewed the spiral as a symbol for journey, growth, and evolution. From timeless edifices to contemporary architecture, one can observe the spiral form in building structures; such as staircases, domes, and spires. One doesn’t have to

The topics covered in these few weeks were “what is madness?”, “psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches towards madness” and the “biomedical perspectives on mental illness”. One of the lectures that I found very interesting is the lecture on psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches towards madness. In that lecture, we also learnt about defense mechanisms towards distress or unhappy events in life. They are categorized into “primitive”, “less primitive” and “mature” defense mechanisms. Undoubtedly

and distinctive from one at home for most and is described by Jennifer M Volland as a place where, “an individual's inner and outer lives [can] collide head-on.” (Volland 16). This conflict between our inner and outer personalities is dubbed by Carl Jung as, “the persona...and, the shadow” (Volland 15), which are usually kept in, “separate drawers and are never confronted with one another” (Volland 15). Only in the hotel are these personalities allowed to integrate which can lead us to, “better ourselves

of archetypes, it began with Carl Jung, in the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, being considered the successor of psychoanalysis. Similar to Sigmund Freud, Jung was fascinated by the human being’s psyche and its evolution over time. He believed a person’s past, aspirations, and experiences shape their characters-- who’d they become in the future. However, while both psychologists’ studies revolved around a person’s psyche and their mental wellbeing, Jung primarily focused on the attributes

Sigmund Freud and Carl Rogers are two psychologists who developed theories on personalities. Sigmund Freud was known as the “Father of Psychoanalysis” and his well known theory stated that nearly all psychological issues went back to a sexual problem. Carl Rogers was a humanistic psychologist who researched the personality theory in the notion of the self or the self concept. Freud was known for having the inclinations to follow every mental issue back to sexual issues. Despite the fact that lone