Freud suggested that unresolved unconscious conflicts at anal stage of psychosexual development cause fixation that eventually lead to development of obsessions and ritualistic behaviours at later life. To apply the Freudian idea to the given case study, it can be assumed that Diane’s unresolved conflicts have caused a fixation at anal stage of her development. The repressed angry thoughts expressed themselves in Diane’s behaviour resulting in anxiety and fear of stepping on the pavement cracks. From psychoanalytic point of view OCD is conceptualised in terms of constant conflict between feelings of love and hate. According to Freud, mixture of feelings of love and hate that Diane presumably felt for her mother were the results of her obsessional thoughts and fear of losing the mother, and could actually mean an unconscious wish of Diane to kill her mother.
In the excerpt from A Secret Sorrow, the main characters are Kai and Faye. Faye is recovering from psychological damage she was forced upon in a car crash. We learn from the biography of Karen van der Zee that Faye has received permanent internal injuries in result of the accident. These injuries cause her to be incapable of having children. When she works up the courage to tell her boyfriend, Kai, she is afraid that he will leave her because of this news.
In reality, Raeanne died in a terrible car accident. The trauma of the event caused Kaeleigh’s mind to split, forming another personality, that of her dead sister, Raeanne, who often takes over in times where Kaeleigh would otherwise falter. This eerie, creepy alternative personality takes over Kaeleigh’s life for some period of time, influencing her decisions and making her do things that she naturally wouldn’t contemplate; “I have no real right to play stand-in for Kaeleigh, but she wouldn’t have the nerve to do what needs to be done anyway. Sorry, twin o’ mine, but it’s true” (171). This puppet-master behavior slowly begins to deteriorate Kaeleigh’s life and reputation, causing confusion and torn relationships; “Frigid.
Alisa Key August 16, 2010 AP English 11 The Scarlet Letter The progression of Hester throughout The Scarlet Letter was dramatic and varied greatly. In the beginning of the book she was feeling ashamed, isolated, and shunned by the townspeople. To her, the “A” stood for more than adultery, it stood for “ashamed.” She was being imprisoned by the judgment of others; the lock was a simple scarlet letter. She was living while being haunted by her past. Even seeing her own daughter, Pearl, would sometimes bring up the emotion of her sin all over again.
Elizabeth on the other hand was rather nervous about the situation and guilt began to eat away at her. The guilt had a strong effect on the younger girl. She became rather distracted, and confused. She babbled nonsense, woke up screaming at night, and became weak, refusing or even forgetting to eat. But her guilt did not give her the courage to report to Reverend Parris what was taking place, and so the meetings continued.
Lisa Blake Uche Chibeuze, Psy/210 September 5, 2010 *What are the causes of stress in Jennifer’s life? How is stress affecting Jennifer’s health? There appears to be many people, things, and situations causing Jennifer stress and affecting her health. I believe trying to be everything will drive you crazy and Jennifer is trying to tackle an administrative assistant job, a wife, a soon to be mother, and a daughter and daughter-in-law, and be the best at everything, but it is killing her. Jennifer’s daily hassles are breaking her body down and making her sick.
He believed that we all reach a crisis within each of the life stages. Erikson may have believed that Maria is coming to the end of the Young Adulthood stage in life, a stage which he considered ‘Relationships’ to be the important event in this stage. Maria is a single parent, and Erikson may see this as failure in relationships, which results in isolation and loneliness. Maria is affected by work and home life, causing her behaviour towards colleagues and her children to be sharp and snappy most of the time. This is because she is mentally and physically exhausted and drained where she never gives herself a break.
This started to because a daily process that she thought was use being mean to help daily she didn’t understand I was trying to help her. On August 14, 2014 I got into a wreck someone rear-ended me at a stop light, my back was hurt and I could no longer get her up and down daily. She give up completely I had to get help to change her or even move her I got to the point where she started to get bed sore so we took her to the hospital at that point I asked for help and hospice come in they immeditly told us she was in the end stages of dementia, but this was something we already know. We had seen the puzzle of her slowly falling apart right before our eyes
Plath uses this emotionless depiction of the box as a metaphor for the persona’s troubled mind. She darkly compares the box to a “coffin” of that of a “midget or a square baby”, this gives us an insight into the speakers disturbed inner thoughts and already with a reference to death in the first stanza it is obvious that the persona is in a distressed state of mind. It seems almost as if the arrival of this box is a representation of Plath’s defeat, how her troubled mind has ultimately gained control of her and at it’s hand she herself is powerless. It is suggested that by the box being “locked” that she is feeling confined and trapped within her erratic mind. Once again this brings the theme of entrapment that features in much of Plath’s poetry as she felt she was trapped within her own body.
Her use of words in ‘Elm’ is also interesting. “Faults” could be emotional and/or physical and this shows the psychological states explored throughout Sylvia Plath’s work. “Malignity” symbolises evil and the intensity of how disturbed her life was.Another poem by Plath that I found to be personal on an intense and disturbing way was ‘Mirror’. It is clear as Plath looks into the mirror that she is unhappy, watching her age. A mirror never lies, but Plath cannot find solace in what she sees.