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The psychosomatic element is illustrated by the case of Lucy R., a patient whose inability to acknowledge her romantic desire for her employer or to consciously accept his rejection was repressed into her unconscious mind, subsequently manifesting itself in unexplainable physical symptoms.
The Secret Psychological Core of Individuals
"Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
-- Mark Twain
Freudian psychological concepts portray human beings as manifesting one set of emotions and actions externally that, to a great degree, belie the true nature of the individual. In Freudian terms, almost all external human behavior is a manifestation of unconscious desires and impulses that are entirely unseen by others; in most cases, they remain equally unseen to the individual who has no conscious awareness of why he or she experiences certain impulses, desires, anger, or fear. In that regard, the average individual lives out externalized manifestations of frustrations and rage that were experienced in infancy and during other foundational periods of psychological development.
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For example, traumatic sexual exploitation early in life can lead (seemingly arbitrarily) either to the pathological apparent absence of sexual desires and celibacy or, alternatively, to the pathological apparent promiscuity and sexual recklessness and responsibility. Both polar extremes are externalized behavioral manifestations are sublimations of the unexpressed emotional responses to the earlier trauma.
Finally, Freud describes how lifelong passions and ambitions, even those that are productive and beneficial from the perspective of society, are often sublimated impulses generated by unresolved inner conflicts related to unconscious thoughts, desires, fears, and reactions. A typical example would be the powerful business mogul whose real motivation derives from deep shame and a sense of inadequacy instilled during formative developmental periods. His true self and his real motivations remain hidden from others, and more often than not, also from himself.
Human Nature Book Summary Jeeves, Malcolm. (Editor) From Cells to Souls -- and Beyond. New York: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. According to Michael Steel in the book edited Malcolm Jeeves entitled From Cells to Souls -- and Beyond, the most critical moral and ethical debate of our time is the relationship of the human being as a 'self' or 'soul' (depending on one's preferred cultural, psychological or religious term for describing
More specifically, children whose transition through the Oedipal or Electra Complex and those whose parents neglected to fulfill their other crucial emotional needs during their developmental years retain long- lasting negative psychological attachments to those areas in which their needs where unfulfilled. Alternatively, they may retain a fundamental psychological orientation that corresponds to the precise stage of development (i.e. oral or anal phase, etc.) where their essential needs where unfulfilled within their
He was unworthy, because he had in effect become both a woman and a prostitute. If as an adult he nevertheless went ahead and exercised his citizenship by casting his vote or speaking in the assembly, he could be put on trial and lose not only his citizenship but also his life. Such charges may not have been brought very often, but it did sometimes happen,(18) and the very
Sigmund Feud is popularly referred to as "the father of psychoanalysis." He lived between 1856 and 1939. His work and ideas have greatly influenced psychological imaginations and popularized notions such as Freudian sleep and dream symbolism, defense mechanism, unconsciousness, and many more. These notions have greatly contributed to films, literature, and theories such as feminism, psychology, philosophy and criticism. Freud is also known for theories such as unconscious mind, specifically those
Personality Approaches Biological Humanistic Approaches HUMAN PERSONALITY Humanistic and Biological Approaches of Human Personality Basic Aspects of Humanistic Theory Incompatible with Biological Explanations of Personality The purpose of writing this essay is to analyze the two approaches of personality; humanistic approach and biological approach. These two approaches are opposite to each other; since humanistic approach allows free will and gives an optimistic view of personality while the biological approach is deterministic. Due to being pessimistic
Moral Suppression, Social Norms, and the Human Mind: Psychoanalysis in "Wieland" by Charles Brockden Brown Eighteenth century American literature has yet to witness the science of psychoanalysis that Sigmund Freud had introduced in the 19th century. Psychoanalytic theory posits that people are influenced by unconscious forces, wherein an individual's innate desires and drives are contained within. Upon the conceptualization of psychoanalytic theory, literary works and analysis have portrayed characters and events