Psychoanalytic criticism Psychoanalytic literary criticism refers to literary criticism or literary theory which‚ in method‚ concept‚ or form‚ is influenced by the tradition of psychoanalysis begun by Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalytic reading has been practiced since the early development of psychoanalysis itself‚ and has developed into a heterogeneous interpretive tradition. As Patricia Waugh writes‚ ’Psychoanalytic literary criticism does not constitute a unified field....However‚ all variants
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Jacobs relives her personal experience as a slave. She remembers the countless acts of sexual advances towards her by the slave master whom she resided with at the time. Therefore‚ she can relate to the women that were experiencing being seduced by their owners having to give in to them and have sexual intercourse with them. In her narrative Jacobs discusses “the sexual abuse she endured while in slavery”
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References: Bauman‚ Z 1995‚ Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality‚ Oxford‚ Cambridge: Blackwell‚ pp. 114-122. Bell‚ S 1999‚ Tattooed: A participant observer’s exploration of meaning‚ in Journal of American Culture 22‚ pp. 53-58. Caplan‚ J 2000‚ Written on
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279-283. Gulotta‚ C.‚ Piazza‚ C.‚ Patel‚ M.‚ & Layer‚ S. (2005). Using food redistribution to reduce packing in 2 children with severe food refusal. Journal of Applied Behavior Behavior Analysis‚ 38‚ 39-50. Iwata‚ B.‚ Dorsey‚ M.‚ Slifer‚ K.‚ Bauman‚ K.‚ & Richman‚ G. (1982). Toward a functional analysis of self-injury. Journal of Applied Behavior Behavior Analysis‚ 27‚ 197-209. Lovaas‚
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indicates that guilt repressed is far more devastating in its effects than guilt openly acknowledged...” In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ the protagonist‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ committed a sin of adultery but he publicly confessed his role in the indiscretion. The fact that Hester takes all the blame for their sin irritates his conscience‚ and he physically and psychologically tortures himself. The result of this torture opens his mind. A consequence of his repressed guilt is his feeling
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According to this theory‚ the aim of punishment is to educate or reform the offender himself. Punishment is inflicted on a criminal in order to reform or educate him. This theory is commonly accepted at the present time‚ because it is in harmony with the humanitarian sentiments of the age. This theory does not involve treating a person as a thing; a criminal is punished for his own good- not merely for the good of others. Reformation or education of the criminal is the aim of punishment. The
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In analysing Great Expectations‚ Dorothy Van Ghent maintains that there are two kinds of crime that drive the moral plot of the novel: the crime of parent against child and the calculated social crime "of turning the individual into a machine". Thus‚ in the same way that the parent or the parent figure abuses the child‚ social authority also participates in creating parents who participate in the dehumanization of the children. (sons heir of fathers sin‚ repeat in society over n over) Van Ghent
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Cited: Green‚ Celia. The Human Evasion. The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension. 22 April 2005 . Guevara‚ NietzsChe. Seduced by the Image of Reality. The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension. 22 April 2005 . Hoffman‚ Michael. Ego Death and Self-Control Cybernetics. 1985-2005. 20 April 2005 . Metzner‚ Ralph. The Reunification of the Sacred and the Natural. Eleusis. August 1997:
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her for himself. Well one day Zeus feigned himself as a cuckoo. It was very cold out side and Hera saw the cuckoo all cold. She brought the bird to her breast to warm it. Once she did that‚ he turned himself back to normal‚ and raped her. He than seduced her into marring him. Ares‚ Hebe‚ Hephaestus‚ and Eileitha were the names of Hera’s kids. She was known as the "White Armed Goddess." When she fragranced her body with lotion‚ it filled the universe with that delectable smell that no one could resist
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situations which provoke anxiety. Another psychological explanation of OCD is the psychodynamic approach suggested by Freud (1917) which assumes OCD arises when unacceptable wishes and impulses coming from the id are only partially repressed. These partially repressed thoughts then can provoke anxiety within a person. OCD sufferers use ego-defence mechanisms in order to reduce the feeling of anxiety associated with the impulses and wishes. There are three main ego defence mechanisms. Isolation is
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