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Mc Murphy Nurse Ratched
5,687 words... level. Kesey constructs One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as a struggle between a number of conflicting values that Mc Murphy and Nurse Ratched represent, such as freedom, sexuality, rational choice for the former and authoritarianism, repression and determinism for the latter. Nurse Ratched's willing perpetuation of the struggle indicates that she is herself aware of one of at least one of these conflicts. The patients love that Mc Murphy "got the nurse's goat the way he said he would. " Mc M...
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Evidence To Support Repressed Memories
1,312 words" One morning after Dad finishes his workout, he pulls a fold-out bunk from the wall and lies down, still unclothed. I sit on the floor beside him. I watch his erection. He slaps his tummy with it. He laughs as if he is surprised. " Touch it, " he says, holding his penis up, offering it to me. I reached over, hold it with my fingers, and let it go, making a thwack... I have seen his penis before when it is hard. He'd tried to put it into my bottom. He is going to do it again, isn't he? "I don't ...
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Alexithymia And The Defense Of Primal Repression
1,197 wordsPrimal Repression may well account for the psychic structural defect and many of the clinical features associated with the alexithymia construct. [James D. A. Parker and Graeme J. Taylor in Disorders of Affect Regulation p. 89 ] Repression proper is a defensive process that evolves out of primal repression, and involves a rejection from the conscious mind of already formed instinctual wishes and other representations. Primal repression, on the other hand, is akin to [an] idea of Freud's viz. , h...
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Body And Soul Internal And External
2,952 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites It is impossible to rigorously prove or substantiate the existence of a Soul, a psyche. Numerous explanations have been hitherto offered: That what we, humans, call a soul is the way that we experience the workings of our brain (introspection experienced). This often leads to infinite regressions. That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the...
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Spanish Civil War World War Ii
1,612 wordsThe regime of General Franco considered its greatest political achievement to be the establishment of an era of peace and order without precedent in the history of Spain. Opposition to Franco was ineffective for so long due to a wide variety of factors, the Franco regime itself was very oppressive yet it cannot solely explain the lack of opposition as it did not prevent strikes, student demonstrations and the activities of ETA in the 1960 s. There was tacit acceptance by the large sections of th...
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Obsessive Compulsive Defense Mechanisms
1,619 words... capable ambitions and actions. One may convert a compelling interest in getting a parent's attention into a drive to do well in school. Sexual drives can be pored into sports. Anger and resentment of the advantages of others can be funneled into an obsession to excel in a lucrative career. Fantasy: daydreams and their substitutes -- novels and TV Soaps -- are escapes, a way to avoid our real worries or boredom. We may imagine being highly successful when we feel unsuccessful; at least we fee...
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Oral Traditions Judeo Christian
4,312 wordsDear Rod, How are you doing? I wanted to write a reply to That Ole Devil Christianity, and I think that Ill give it a try now. Image Steve Blatt a copy of your reply Ill have to wait to see what he thinks. As a preface, I asked you if you were trying to show that my interpretation of Christianity was wrong, or merely one-sided. That is, were your counter-examples supposed toyshop that Christianity is actually the opposite of how I characterized it, or do you concede that the elements I citrate p...
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Heroin Addicts Anabolic Steroids
4,574 wordsThere are few other social problems that are surrounded by more myths and misinformation than drug use. The confusion actually starts with the meaning of the term. Many people believe that only illegal substances such as heroin, cocaine, or marijuana are drugs, but alcohol and tobacco alter the minds and moods of those who use them and can be just as dangerous as illicit drugs. Also drug use is not limited to a few deviants on the margin of society. Drugs are a big business: Canadians spend bill...
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Develop A Sense Stage Of Life
4,787 wordsMany believe Freud to be the father of modern psychiatry and psychology and the only psychiatrist of any worth. He is certainly the most well known figure, perhaps because sex played such a prominent role in his system. There are other psychologists, however, whose theories demand respectful consideration. Erik Erickson, born Eric Hamburger, whose theories while not as titillating as Freud's, are just as sound. This paper will compare the two great men and their systems. In addition, this paper ...
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Pip Freud
1,636 wordsPsychoanalytic And Gender Perspectives In Great Expectations Psychoanalytic And Gender Perspectives In Great Expectations Criticisms of Great Expectations: Psychoanalytic and Gender Perspectives Psychoanalytic and gender literary criticisms are important as individual analyses and are similar in some respects, namely sexual and gender issues, which make them ideal choices for analyzing Great Expectations. Reading the novel from a psychoanalytical perspective invites an interpretation based on sy...
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Obsessive Compulsive Freud
5,825 wordsSam Vaknins Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites It is impossible to rigorously prove or substantiate the existence of a Soul, a psyche. Numerous explanations have been hitherto offered: That what we, humans, call a soul is the way that we experience the workings of our brain (introspection experienced). This often leads to infinite regressions. That the soul is an epiphenomenon, the software result of a hardware complexity (much the same way as temperature, volume and...
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