Libido

The physical, mental and emotional consequences of low libido are too numerous to ignore. They impact your health, complicate your thoughts and compromise your feelings. By Linda Ryan The intimacy and pleasure that comes from a healthy, satisfying sex life are the essential feelings of a happy, loving relationship. It is the desire to express your unique sexuality into your relationship that builds the comfort, security and satisfaction inherent in a healthy sex life. When the desire for sexual

Fulfillment of desire has always been a popular theme in novels, plays and short stories because it has been undeniable and problematic in women throughout history. Novels such as The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, as well as plays like A Streetcar Named Desire and "Portrait of a Madonna," by Tennessee Williams, often show what society would ensure happened to these women if they were ever to follow through and try to fulfill their desires, be them sexual desires or otherwise. According to this novels

Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytical) theory was developed by Sigmund Freud in the late 1800’s and has gained increasing popularity in the history of criminality (Siegel, 2005). Freud believed that every individual carries “[the] residue of the most significant emotional attachments of our childhood, which then guides our future interpersonal relationships” (Siegel). Freud theorized that the personality is a three-part structure made up of the id, ego, and super ego. These three components work together

The foliage along the river was colorful and inviting. It was not quite as lush or as green as it had been earlier in the year but welcoming nonetheless. The weather was much cooler, but it had not gotten cold enough for the trees to lose all their leaves or the grass to turn completely brown. Everywhere I looked, patches of green grass peeked from forest glens and barren wisteria vines and multihued, leafed honeysuckle vines frapped hardwoods along the shore. Above those, tall elegant cypress trees

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist who studied in various subjects such as philosophy and physiology (Freud 1992). Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis with his methods still being used in the field of psychology, which highlights the pathological processes in mental life. The most important aspect of Freud’s ideas was the human psyche (personality) has more that has more than one aspect. Freud (1923) separated the psyche into 3 sections known as the Id, Ego and superego whereby they develop

On a clothes advertisement, well shaped and beautiful women came out to introduce new clothes. In hair, clothes, and other many advertisements, usually glamor and really good looking women are main models of the advertisements. Not only in advertisements, but also in many films and dramas, the main character is always a tall, thin and beautiful woman. This situation can be explained by John Berger’s book, “Way’s of seeing”. John Berger is an English art critic, novelist, and painter, and this book

After a year in eighth grade at the junior high school in Bangor, I missed the intimacy of the small private classrooms when I was in Florida. So, the following year, in the summer of 1962, my parents enrolled me at Oak Grove School for Girls in Vassalboro, Maine, one of the oldest, most elite private finishing schools for girls in the world. The school was run by a board of Quaker trustees and an elderly and very strict Victorian headmistress, Mistress Owen, whose demeanor well suited the school

Madeleine Davies had once said that Margaret Atwood’s “female bodies are inevitably coded bodies that tell the story of the subject’s experience within a political economy that seeks to consume them, convert them into consumers in turn, shrink them, neutralize them, silence them, and contain them physically or metaphorically.” (Davies 60). In Margaret Atwood’s short story, The Victory Burlesk, Atwood is showing just that; Atwood is demonstrating how a woman is shrunken, silenced, and contained. This

In Civilization and Discontents, Sigmund Freud analyzes the relationship between individuals and civilization and how it relates to his theory of instincts and the individual psyche. The viewpoint of civilization and the individuals residing in it changed after the First World War when death became anonymous with the use of new war tactics and weapons such as trench warfare, machine guns, and tanks. Many were left unsettled at the savagery that the modern man was capable of. The idea of civilization

Freud was an Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis; he was born on 6th May 1856 and died 23rd September 1939 in London. Freud developed psychoanalysis which looked into dreams, fantasies and someone’s free association. The psychodynamic approach looks into the unconscious (unware) and how this effects behavior and the conscious (aware) and the relation between them in our mind (psyche). Freud’s theories about child sexuality, ego’s and what makes us tick were most influential in the