Outline and evaluate the psychodynamic approach to abnormality The psychodynamic approach assumes that experiences in our earliest years can affect our emotions, attitudes and behaviour in later years without us being aware that it is happening. Freud suggested the mind or psyche has three parts: the conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious. Freud suggested that individuals can never be aware of the contents of the unconscious. Freud argued that childhood experiences play a crucial part in adult development, including the development of adult personality. Every child must pass through the so-called psycho-sexual stages; how a child experiences these stages plays a crucial role in the development of his/her personality.
According to Holden, Allie was the nicest person he knew and Holden compared his brother to innocence. On the day Allie died Holden was so broken up that he did not know how to express his feelings about the event. Holden could not deal with the immense pain of losing Allie, so he started to induce physical pain on himself. Holden said “I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it” (Salinger 39). In the process of breaking the windows Holden also breaks his fist and is forced to visit the hospital.
“All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men”, (William Penn a preacher, minister, and missionary in the late seventeenth century). In The Absolutely True diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexies shows us how alcohol abuse affects Junior's life, how painful it is to deal with the effect, and how it leads to violence and death of the ones he loves. Alcoholism is a disease that affects millions of people and it isn't different for Indians as we see in every other page of this novel. To understand why alcoholism is a disease, it's important to look up it's effects.
Serial killers usually have a traumatic childhood, so it must be apparent that something went tremendously wrong with Aileen as a child that led her to be a psychotic serial killer. One of the main reasons that Aileen Wuornos became a serial killer was due to her upbringing. Her mother abandoned her very early in her childhood and her father was a convicted pedophile who eventually committed suicide in prison. One could only assume that she was adopted by close family members or a foster child. Another disturbing revelation about her childhood was that Aileen had sexual relations at a young age, but with her brother Keith.
They both abhor solitude but are unsure how to find viable friendship. Throughout both novels, many characters, if not the protagonists themselves, express regret over lost potential. Ethan Frome had a “premature end” put to his studies. (Wharton, page 24) His great interest in the narrator’s biochemistry book reflects not only his “aggrieve[ment] at is own ignorance” but also his keen interest for learning. It also reflects his compunction for neglect of his education.
Through illustration, atmosphere and irony, the author shifts from Dimmesdale’s declining health and internal pain to Dimmesdale’s confession of being the other adulterer, Hester’s lover and Pearl’s father. Arthur Dimmesdale, a Reverend, got tortured by Hester’s silence and by Hester’s husband. He tortured himself for being incapable of confessing this secret. He beat himself with a bloody whip as a self- punishment and kept beating himself all night while his mind was being plagued by scary visions. Dimmesdale’s mental balance suffered in a big way.
Alyssa Tippens 21 September 2011 Whedon 5 Whedon-Final Written Exam “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” (p.2). Within the novel The Great Gatsby by F, Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is, if anything, a very misunderstood man. Like every person that has ever lived, he is by no means perfect. He pushes through life in an attempt to live out his dreams and create a life different from the one he was born into. Gatsby becomes corrupted as a result of his surroundings and participates in evil things.
Riveting and heartbreaking... filled with important truths about humanity in all its denominations" - Los Angeles Times "Unforgettable...personalizes the priest abuse scandal so vividly that you can't forget just how profoundly it lays siege to its victims' lives." - Boston Globe "Poignant...a level of intimacy so unsettling and deep one wonders how it could have possibly been achieved" - NY Newsday The film focuses on Tony Comes, a firefighter from Toledo, Ohio, who was first sexually abused by a Catholic priest when he was a fourteen-year-old student at a Catholic high school. Feeling ashamed, Comes kept his secret for nearly 20 years but was forced to confront his past after discovering that the priest, Dennis Gray, was living
Edgar Allen Poe: The Tragic Life of an American Legacy Destruction seemed to follow him wherever he strayed. A vast empty hole lied where his heart should have. His undependable family, love interests, and employers led him to fill his voids with alcohol, drugs, and lustful women. With a life full of tragedy, addiction, and betrayal, nothing less is expected in Edgar Allan Poe’s stories, particularly “Ligeia,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” and “The Cask of Amontillado.” Poe’s childhood fled from a pampered infantry to a vastly empty adolescence. He was adopted by John Allan, a wealthy Scotch merchant, after the death of both of his parents.
Gregor spirals into the depths of isolation, loneliness and despair. This story bears resemblance to all of Kafka's work which is in a very unusual setting, but very real and present aspects of the darkness of human and behavior. This is indeed a metaphor of absurdity and dehumanization. What made me feel very sorry for him is actually his attempt to get out of bed because he thinks he cannot lose his job otherwise no one will support the family. Kafka uses five pages to describe Gregor tries so hard to get out of bed and persuades his family and the chief clerk he is alright and he is going to work soon.