Psychodynamic Approach Sigmund Freud is the founder of the psychodynamic approach. This approach focuses on the unconscious mind to explain behaviour, and also to treat people suffering from mental illness. This approach also looks into our behaviour and feelings as adults, as our childhood experiences and Interpol relationships can explain this. Freud believes that what drives our behaviour is conflict that arises between three parts of our psych, the id, superego and the ego. The three personalities of the psych are usually out of sync with each other.
Psychoanalytic Criticism of Frankenstein Psychoanalytic Criticism is based mostly on Sigmund Freud's work. Freud believed in the id, ego and superego. Psychoanalytic critics also rely upon the work of Jacques Lacan. Lacan believed that before a child realizes that his mother is not entirely his, the child experiences the mirror stage. In this stage, the child can view himself and his mother as individuals.
He assumed that if the unconscious behaviour was brought to awareness the abnormal behaviour would disappear. Thirdly, that there are three component to personality, the ego, the id and the superego. The id is present at birth and represents a persons instincts and basic drives related to sex and aggression. Later in life we develop a superego, which consists of morals and culture, this is our conscience. These two conflicting components are controlled by the ego.
According to Freud, the originally repressed fears may go back far into childhood. This notion is echoed by Glick and Spitz (1992) Common Approaches to Psychotherapy (p. 47, 48) when they state "a person's feelings and behavior are influenced by past experience as well as present circumstances. A large part of mental life exists outside awareness but nonetheless continually influences and motivates current experience." Virginia Stuart Cunningham, a twenty-four-year-old patient at Juniper Hill State Hospital, suffers from extreme anxiety, confusion and delusion. Virginia insists she has no husband and fails to
It attempts explaining how her personality and behaviour are influenced according to the theory. The two perspectives highlighted below both attempt to explain human behaviour in different ways with barely any common threads observed. In the psychoanalytic perspective, human behaviour is defined by the unconscious mind. This theory which is considered as the best known psychodynamic approach grew out of the work of Sigmund Freud (Coon & Mittere, 2012). Freud’s theory based on human motivations and behaviour emphasises how the conflicting unconscious processes and early childhood experiences affect adult personality.
Both approaches differ when considering reality and what it is like to be a person. Sigmund Freud is generally recognised as the founder of the psychodynamic approach to modern psychology - psychoanalysis. Freud believed that much of our human behaviour is not within our conscious control and is powerfully affected by unconscious motives. Furthermore, he considered adult behaviour patterns and thought processes to be the creation of childhood experiences. Psychological problems occur in the developmental stages of childhood when sexual and aggressive impulses are subconsciously repressed and ‘driven
I was raised by a single mother and after reflection on Dr. Perry’s theories I found myself analyzing myself due to the disruptions from my single mother. Concretizing: Dr. Bruce Perry discussed how after birth a child’s external regulator for their stress response system is their caregiver. The child needs an external regulator to bring their stress response level down from a high arousal response to a balanced state. If a child has to frequently hit their arousal response a template is created by the brain. Such that through out life a reaction from the brain to stress is an instant arousal response that leaves minimal room for cognitive brain function.
Schwartz mentioned a good example when “ Jane was infant, who was orphaned by the death of her parents, and how Jane became the ward of a woman who always abused ,then she moved on to explain when Jane was as a little girl , who experienced her circumstances as arbitrary , which were beyond her power to change , also she explains the gap that happened in Jane’s childhood and her adultness and how she represents herself and how that ambiguity run” (549) . Schwartz on her essay went on to apply Derrida’s concepts of deconstruction on one hand like “split” and “the binary oppositions”. As she also investigates Jane’s family name and explains what her name means in Latin, also on this part of her essay on the other hand she go back to Freud big impact on the novel and used his psychological concept which is “the family romance “ that she thoroughly apply it on her essay and how Jane’s narrative embody the double wish in her novel like “original and derived, free and bound, an orphan and an heir” (553). Schwartz said that we have to over look the ambivalent representation of home and family that run throughout the novel (553). She gives a good example “how the ambivalence about home is manifested in the slippage of the family name Eyre” (554) .Also how Rochester and St. John are victimized by the trap that is family and how Jane herself escapes it.
Jule was a poor orphan from early on in her life. Also unlike most feminine main characters Jule is very strong and independent. Her parents died while she was very young leaving her to fend for herself. Luckily Jule is a fighter, and learns how to take care of herself. Jule becomes a social chameleon and learns how to deceive everyone.
She seems to already be on a self-destructive path, even as a teenager. Tillie, on the other hand, represents the person that makes the best out of there situation and comes out of it with amazing results. In the book, Tillie’s home life is a wreck. Her mother is harsh, unsupportive, and uncaring, but