When Cole is banished to the island, he is filled with a whirlpool of swirling rage. In the novel, Touching Spirit Bear, by Ben Mikaelsen, Cole Mathews is a misled young man, who has a knack for getting himself into trouble. Raised by his abusive father and alcoholic mother, Cole’s personality is built upon a foundation of anger and pain. All of these unaddressed emotions cause Cole to commit crimes and bully other kids. With nobody to tell him otherwise, Cole convinces himself that neither of his parents want him.
Freud’s emphasis and major area of focus was that personality consists of three systems; the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is mostly unconscious and is ruled by the pleasure principle, which is based on a drive to satisfy instinctual needs. The ego does logical, realistic thinking and formulates plans of action for satisfying needs. The superego works with both id and ego inhibiting Id impulses and persuading the ego to substitute moralistic goals for realistic ones. Although the ego and superego operates on all three levels of awareness; conscious, preconscious, and unconscious- the id is the entirely unconscious, expressing its urges at a conscious level through the ego.
Rodriguez’s aim was not to offend anyone, but merely to open the eyes of his son who had recently joined a gang, Tiffany L. Youngren could not have said it better when she exclaimed, “Rodriguez wields life together like a tool, splitting stereotype cleanly down the middle and scooping out characters that are complex and whole… the people in his stories abuse drugs, start fights, steal and gang-bang, but they are human above all” (Youngren). Always Running by Luis Rodriguez with its explicit language, forbidden tales and gang warfare, describes exactly how life on
Gresyon Dixon has a father that is very loving and kind, but as a child, his grandfather physically abused his wife as well as Dixon’s father. Dixon’s father grew up in an environment where this was the norm. But as a child, his father learned that fear was the outcome of this normal abusive brutality. Dixon says that because of this established feeling of fear, his father was able to grow and develop feelings of kindness and love. Not only that, but because both traits were apparent in his life, he was able to choose for himself the type of life he wanted to live.
It was a self-fulfilling prophecy. Men turned to alcohol and violence from migration and new and past trauma such as War. These issues typically divided families. This story is repeated from family after family in the sense that anything was to be done in order to survive and have a new, good life.
Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality Kherik Gordon PSY 250 July 18, 2013 Patrick Norman Psychoanalytic Approach to Personality The psychoanalytic approach to personality is the study of the human personality where it deals with the mind. Sigmund Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis and the psychodynamic approach to psychology. This school of thought emphasized the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior. Freud believed that the human mind was composed of three elements: the id, the ego, and the superego (Cherry, 2013). Although Freud is credited with the start of this theory, there were other psychotherapists who used and expanded this theory; the most popular were Carl Jung and Alfred Adler.
Freud suggested that energy is generated by libido which is influenced by cathexis and anti cathexis. This research created controversy and started a debate with the psychoanalysis theory. Freud’s research was based solely off of his personal observations and case studies of his patients. Anticathexis is defined as the transfer of mental or emotional energy from an impulse to one of an opposite kind. These energies tend to be suppressed.
As a child, Amir was constantly trying to impress his father, Baba, who looked up to Hassan more than he did Amir. This caused Amir to always be jealous of Hassan, and would constantly test Hassan's loyalty. This was one of the things that I hated about Amir. No matter how much Hassan did for him, he still tested him. Amir would rather his father love him and be proud of him for one day than help his best friend from getting raped.
Due to his lack of friends he tries to create a bond with Sam and it makes it even more valuable due to Hally’s loneliness. He would always “try out a few ideas but sooner or later” he’d “end up in there with” Sam and Willie. He would always look for something to do and always wonder what he should do and think of some ideas but in the end he knew that they would always be there and he would never be let down by them. Hally feels a strong sense of humiliation and all of it because of his crippled and alcoholic father whom made him feel a constant let down in his life. When Hally was young his father “was dead drunk on the floor of the Central Hotel Bar” and Sam helped Hally bring him home.
This element is innate – it is present from birth. The superego, or the morality principle, is the conscience of the mind- it understands right from wrong. It is in constant conflict with the Id, and develops during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. The third element, the Ego, acts as a mediator between the two and at times uses defence mechanisms to shield the conscious from the Id and its desires. Freud also proposed a theory he understood to be the “structure of the mind”.