They both studied different ideas, and preached different views about how our mind functioned. While Maslow focused on the humanistic aspect of our personality, Jung focused on the psychoanalytic aspect. However, they were both inspired by two great people. Carl Jung was deeply influenced by Sigmund Freud who happens to be the father of psychoanalysis. Though he dismissed Freudian theory that stated that human personality was defined by their sexual drive and desires, he established that we have 2 states of unconscious.
Freud had some beliefs that I believe have been outdated and further researched since his time. Freud proposed there were two main instincts or drives: Life (sexual) and death (aggression). Since real life behaviors do not always allow for us to act on
This Axis for the DSM-IV-TR deals with underlying pervasive or personality conditions, as well as mental retardation, which includes personality disorders. I believe that Nick indeed has not one but possibly two personality disorders. He has co-morbidity with Histrionic Personality Disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. There are many reasons why I chose histrionic personally disorder. First off I notice that his interaction with others is sexually inappropriate, which is one criterion for Histrionic Personality Disorder in the DSM-IV-TR.
The act of dreaming is the experience of situations, images, emotions and thoughts that take place during sleep. Dreams are strongly associated with rapid eye movement also known as REM sleep, during which an electroencephalogram shows brain activity to be most like wakefulness. The contents and biological purposes of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of speculation and interest throughout recorded history. The notion that dreams have a deep meaning behind them was greatly favoured by Psychiatrist Sigmund Freud who believed the interpretation of dreams were sources of insight into unconscious desires. Another Psychiatrist, Carl Jung, also believed that dreams held significant meaning.
Freud assumed that our behavior is caused by unconscious thoughts, our desires and impulses which is also how human behaviour is explained in the psychodynamic approach. Psychodynamic approach concentrates on many different factors that may have caused psychological distress, such as childhood experiences, our current and past relationships and exploring the things we do without even being aware of it. Another very important and powerful tool is to use this therapy to interpret the transference relationship. The psychodynamic counselling sessions are more dynamic as the therapist is trying to help the patient in fewer sessions possible comparing to psychoanalysis. This is why the counselor usually presents himself as a ‘blank screen’ and lets the client act out and projects his feelings on to the therapist.
The difference Jung has with Freud’s theory of infantile sexuality and libido. Jung refused to accept that sexual instinct is the main psychological drive which led him to develop his own theory and therefore his own school of analytic psychology. The two characteristics of these theories I agree with are Alder’s four types of people and dream interpretation aided the treatment of patients. The two that I disagree with are Jung’s analytic psychology and Displacement is one of many defense mechanisms which are when a person is upset or angry with someone else and when he or she comes around other people they are still upset taking their anger out on people that had nothing to do with why she or he is
Philosophy, much like science provides so many questions, but the only proofs that can be shown with philosophy are assumptions. Science concludes that dreams are thoughts or memories we recount when we sleep and although the experiences are not real, the emotions attached to them are. Although there is not a definite conclusion to dreaming, that does not disregard the science behind what scientists have found from experiments. Descartes’ dream argument states that he cannot know dream from reality and that he could be dreaming without knowing. To those who doubt that assumption he tries to use God as an example of a deceiver, stating that God has the power to deceive our view of the world (reality).
It was, therefore, my sense that Talvitie’s work served as something of a bridge between the two paradigms that drew me to it. As is the case with all mental phenomena, the questions as to just how and where the unconscious might be, is associated with the mind-body problem that distinguishes monists and dualists. For monists, mind emerges from brain activity. Dualists hold that mind and brain are separate and cannot be reduced to each other. Dualism has largely fallen out of favour with most neuroscientists and Talvitie (2009) himself is clearly a monist.
Descartes says, “…lunatics whose brain is so troubled and befogged by the black vapors of the bile that they continually affirm that they are kings while they are paupers, that they are clothed in gold and purple while they are naked...” This means: That many times when we are dreaming, our senses have the ability of tricking us into thinking that we are in fact not experiencing a dream rather than our reality. Premise 2: It is possible that I am dreaming now. Descartes expresses that the reliability of our sensory knowledge is compromised by the way some people perceive themselves. Descartes explains that if when we dream we do not know that we are dreaming, we may be dreaming at this very moment.
It is that same nervous stimuli, whether during waking life or dreams, that can give rise to different interpretations, or experiences. Hence, what accounts for these various dreams is the fact about which drives are most active, not the stimuli. What differs between the waking life and dreams is the mere fact that in dreaming there is a minimal connection between the sensory stimuli and the experience. Also, that there is a bigger possibility for creative interpretation by drives in the case of dreams. Thus, one has to recognize that “affects and drives are internally related: affects depend on and are expressive of an agent’s drives, thereby providing the qualitative structuring of an agent’s world”