Essays on Sigmund Freud

Narratives reflect the daily activities of humanity, which makes them effective at communicating messages relating to social problems and their possible solutions. In recent year, the nature of these tales has been highly regarded and is now a standard practice. This ties in with the...

Black Swan (2010) is a psychological thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky that tells a story of Nina Sayers, a beautiful young girl who is completely obsessed with her career as a successful ballet dancer.  At the start of the movie, Aronofsky (2010) shows that with...

Hollywood film has dominated the world’s cinema over the past decades. Films such as these follow a structured storyline and provide little to no interpretation to the audience, removing a previous connection from the director to the audience. Before Hollywood’s reign, film was consistently used...

Throughout one’s life, situations will arise where a person feels the need to protect themselves from uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud’s daughter, compiled her father’s research and classified the psychological methods of protection as defence mechanisms: subconscious coping habits that distance one’s...

Sigmund Freud, the great founder of psychoanalysis and the famously known father of psychology, made a big realization about the paradoxical deployment of the uncanny, stating that “The somewhat paradoxical result is that in the first place a great deal that is not uncanny in...

For Freud, uncanny is a word that describes the relationshp someone has with something that is both familiar and unfamiliar. “Uncanny” comes from the German word “unheimlich” whose etymology is unfamiliar and uncomfortable, something unknown. “Heimlich” now, mean the familiar, loving and warm but it...

The feeling of déjà vu is a strange and curious emotion. Sigmund Freud calls this ‘the uncanny’ and describes it as secret, native and familiar, and something that is ‘frightening because it is unknown, yet familiar’. Freud talks about the German equivalent if ‘the uncanny’,...

According to Sigmund Freud under every step that we take or any human behaviour there is always an underlying reason. Therefore, he divided the human mind into three stages in terms of the conscious mind, preconscious and the unconscious mind. The concscious mind refers to...

William Golding once said, “What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others”. In the quote, Golding states “What a man does defiles him” this creates the effect that their actions define them “not what is done by others”. Today, we see...

Narcissism is definitely not a new concept as it has been noticed as far back as thousands of years ago but only gained relevance in psychology as something worth studying in the last century. To better understand the disorder that is Narcissistic Personality Disorder, it...