29 Search Results for Sigmund Freud Civilization and Its Discontents

Freud and Foucault Sigmund Freud Term Paper

.. But they seem to have observed that this newly-won power over space and time, this subjugation of the forces of nature, which is the fulfillment of a longing that goes back thousands of years, has not increased the amount of pleasurable satisfacti Continue Reading...

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY and the PERSPECTIVES Essay

Therefore, the person who chooses to suspend his interests to comply with those artificial externally-imposed social values for the benefit of others will ultimately always suffer disadvantage because others cannot be counted upon to do so consisten Continue Reading...

Analyzing a Character: The Shadow Term Paper

In fact, rather than approve her action, the man who first awakens her new-found sexuality, Robert Lebrun, rejects Edna. As an idealized object of desire from far away, Edna was attractive to Robert. When Edna makes himself available to him, in real Continue Reading...

SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY and the BELIEFS Essay

According to Freud, human societies require people to give up many of their most natural instincts and to replace their natural desires with the need to satisfy the "false standards of measurement" such as the "power, success and wealth [that they Continue Reading...

Revolutionary Thinkers Term Paper

revolutionary thinkers held widely disparate viewpoints regarding war. Charles Darwin's viewpoint was based on the assumption that war was a manifestation of humans' "struggle for existence." In his book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation Continue Reading...

Interpreting a Cartoon Story Essay

anxiety and happiness? Let us consider a joke on this topic, before turning to serious theoretical approaches toward the subject. In a "Peanuts" cartoon strip by Charles M. Schultz, the strip's resident know-it-all and amateur psychiatrist, Lucy van Continue Reading...

Psychology Karen Horney: Tale of Term Paper

The second major category of neurosis consisted of the need to control those very desires, and so remain independent and even assert control over other people. This she called Moving Against People (Horney, 2003, p. 116). Horney had, from the beginn Continue Reading...

Emilia, Wife of Iago Do Not Learn Essay

Emilia, Wife of Iago Do not learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband.[footnoteRef:1] [1: Othello, Act II, Scene i.] More than once, I think to myself how life could have been differed between that of my previous past to that which I have now Continue Reading...