While writing The Ego and the Id in 1923‚ Sigmund Freud was influenced by the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky‚ which led him to theorize that the human mind is composed of three parts: the id‚ ego‚ and superego. The id is the portion of the unconscious that is the source of impulsive and childlike drives. By seeking immediate gratification and pleasure‚ the id operates on the “pleasure principle” (McLeod). Opposite to the id‚ the superego is the “parent portion of the psyche‚” which operates on what seems
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* Hans Hansenn & Ingeborg Holm: represents “Life” Life / Apollonian Part | Art / Dionysian Part | North & West (familiar) | South & East (exotic) | Health | Sickness | Heterosexuality (normal/healthy/socially acceptable) | Homosexuality (forbidden) | Reason‚ intellectual | Feelings & emotion | Norm | | morality | Criminality | **Art has to relate Life/Apollonian Part to the Art and Dionysian Part. To lessen the polarity‚ communication is needed between the two
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Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)‚ Russian composer‚ pianist and conductor‚ is one of the most prominent and well-known composers of the twentieth century. A master of stylistic diversity and having composed in a range of genres‚ Stravinsky’s works can be divided into three major periods: his Russian period (1907-1919)‚ his Neoclassical period (1920-1954)‚ and his Serial period (1954-1968). His Neoclassical period was the longest of the three and the most significant. Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements
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common goal of both artistic drives‚ whose secret marriage partnership‚ after a long antecedent struggle‚ celebrated itself with such a child‚ simultaneously Antigone and Cassandra.” (Friedrich Nietzsche on the relationship between the Apollnian and Dionysian) How do both reason and imagination shape poetry? Reason and Imagination are two concepts that seem opposed to one another. Reason is the ability of humans to make sense of things‚ and is grounded in reality while Imagination is a more abstract
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SA 101 Intro to Anthro midterm ---Coming of age in samoa--- (1928) Child rearing and shaping personality Sexuality‚ ‘there’ ‘here’ Popularizing with American students; not concerned with natural functions of life in samoa. Completely different ways of living. America in 1940; the comparison of here and there. Wanted to see how society was shaped. Culture doesn’t simply exist‚ but that cultures were formulated from an early age A study of socialization in a Polynesian island and an explicit
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and the rational was Apollo‚ while Dionysus was the god of the irrational and chaos. The Greeks did not think the two gods to be opposites or rivals‚ although often the two gods were interwoven by nature. The Apollonian is based on logical thinking and reason. In contrast with the Dionysian‚ that is based on appeals and chaos to the instincts and feeling. I think that the
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“Technology facilitates dictatorship” To what extent does your comparative study of the intertextual perspectives of Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four reflect this statement? The extent of which technology facilitates a totalitarian regime is elucidated by the comparative study of the composers’ intertextual perspectives. Despite living in different time periods‚ both George Orwell’s 1984 and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis convey their perspectives of technology as beings factors that bolster a dictatorship
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“[He] did it all [himself]”: Oedipus’ Self-destruction Oedipus is demonstrating a very key component to the play when he says that “the hand that struck [his] eyes was [his] alone.” The metaphor of three fingers pointing back at you when you point a judging finger at someone else is perfect for this situation. In being so quick to judge the situation and assume that he will bring honour to the land‚ uncovering Laius’s murderer‚ Oedipus curses the one responsible and declares that they will be
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Crime and Punishment Essay Societal Rehabilitation Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s work in Crime and Punishment can be cited as largely autobiographical. Although the author never committed anything like the atrocious murders depicted in the novel‚ the nihilistic traits of his protagonist‚ Raskolnikov‚ closely resemble his own ideals as a youth. In 1947‚ Dostoyevsky joined the revolutionary Petrashevist cause. The author and this group of radical socialists narrowly escaped death after being
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two bounded elements - Dionysian and Apollonian. Nietzsche claims that the dual nature of the Greek theater is a result of the same dichotomy in a human life and the ideal combination of the two origins is incarnated in the Greek Tragedy. Here Nietzsche argues that Homer in his poems perfectly embodies the Apollonian origin of tragedy‚ which is a reflection of logic and reason: "how inexpressibly sublime Homer is‚ therefore‚ who as a single individual relates to that Apollonian folk culture as the single
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