Contrasting the relations of children with their mothers and the relationship’s matriarchal values and relationships to fathers that are conditional on an individual’s success, feminist theory is able to show the conditional element of fatherly love and its rigid injection of economic values (Macdonald, 2011: p451).
Read More…In other words, psychology was not a science subject earlier because of our inability in measuring or assessing activities in the mind accurately. To raise the status of psychology to scientific levels, psychologists modified the definition of psychology as the study of behavior rather than the study of the mind. It is possible for us to measure the behavior of a person both qualitatively.
Read More…Anxiety thus signifies the paradoxical existence of the intimidating and the pleasing in one and the same form of language, thereby indicating something about the possible function of art, and its modes of expression and figuration. So, based on Lacan`s concept of Real, we can conclude that the effect of the uncanny refers to a psychic event that precedes the distinction between reality and imaginative reality.
The author states that psychoanalysis is considered as the most comprehensive of all the personality theories, yet, it is also the most controversial. It has generated a great number of positive and even negative criticisms. Sigmund Freud, the Father of Psychoanalysis, has stirred the greatest amount of critical interest indeed.
Read More…An Austrian by nationality, Sigmund Freud was a neurologist who laid foundations of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. He is well known for redefining sexual drive as the primary driving force of human life. Moreover, the clinical practice of solving psychological problems through dialogue between a psychoanalyst and a patient is also one of his discoveries.
Read More…The theory emphasizes the roles of the intra-psychic events and unconscious drives as well, as early childhood development (Frosh, 2012). For this reason, the psychoanalytic theory remains influential to our understanding of the mind and human behavior. In particular, it provides a source of ideology for ideas considering the therapeutic practice, but offers a number of dramatic insights on the study culture and the society.
Read More…“Socrates, Aristotle and Plato opened the floor for the study of human behavior and mental life in their philosophical discourses. The fundamental question involved what motivated man to do the thighs he does and how ideas come about. Two thousand years have passed and these questions remain the driving force behind the study of the human psyche… of Psychology” (Atkinson, 1993, p. 9-10).
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