...by showing that both stories have similar archetypes embedded within their narratives. By definition and according to our text, archetypes are “characters, images and themes that symbolically embody meanings and experiences,” (2059, Meyer). In both of these stories, I see that the main characters are involved in a quest for feminine self-discovery and freedom of the human spirit. In Joseph Campbell’s, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” the author discusses the journey we are called to in life, and that some choose to follow that call while others do not. In this case, both female characters choose not to answer the call, and become trapped in their initial wounding. The both feel they have no power to move out of their current state. In Carol Pearson’s book, “The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By,” six major archetypes are discussed. They include the orphan, the innocent, the magician, the wanderer, the warrior and the altruist. All of these archetypes can also have shadow sides, as described by author Pearson. In my opinion, the archetype that best fits Mrs. Mallard, the main character of “A Story of an Hour,” by Chopin and Miss Emily Grierson, the main character of “A Rose for Miss Emily,” by Faulkner, is the orphan archetype and its shadow side. Mrs. Mallard is a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage. To her, it almost feels like a prison. Characteristic of the orphan archetype, she has low expectations. The archetype of orphan begins with an initial wounding...
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...semi-autobiography of Gilman’s mental illness and treatment approach. In the story, Gilman takes the readers into the psyche of a young wife and mother, Jane, whom is powerless in her insecurities which no one truly understands or makes the attempt to try and understand. Her husband, John, has moved her to the country to recover from her illness. John is a physician who is trying to treat Jane for being “nervous”. Although his intentions are good, he goes about it in the wrong way. Dismissing any wishes she may have and not allowing her to express her feelings and or opinions. For example, Jane wants to be in a different room. The narrator states, “I don’t like our room a bit. I wanted the one downstairs that opened onto the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hanging! But John would not hear of it.” (pg. 346) Making an assumption from what Jane reveals, she is not able to care for her newborn child and has now fallen in to an extremely emotionally unstable state. "It is fortunate Mary is so good with the baby. Such a dear baby! And yet I cannot be with him, it makes me so nervous." (pg. 346-47. Gilman) Her husband, John, and the other people in her life, don't think she should do anything. She likes to write but John does not allow that so she sneaks it. "There comes John, and I must put this away - he hates to have me write a word”(pg. 346). Freud, Jung and Lacan psychoanalytic approach with mental illnesses were different in many...
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...Sacha Kagan Master CE&CE 2003 page 1 Instructor: Dr. Noordman Seminar: City-Marketing Book review: Peter Senge, The fifth discipline Introduction, or why we should listen to Peter Senge In the seminar on City-Marketing, Noordman insisted on the need for a city to develop its own effective organization climate. A city always has an organization climate, but is not often aware of it, and therefore can have a hard time improving its identity and its image. Senge, in The fifth discipline, helps us understand how we can effectively change the underlying assumptions, the values and norms and some behavioural patterns altogether. Moreover, this is not just about changing the organization climate for a better one. It goes well beyond identifying and fixing the short-terms problems a city faces: Senge leads us to change radically the way we think, so that cities can build sustainable organization climates. Truly understanding the principles of the learning organization will even drive us further than building organization climates for effective city-marketing… because city-marketing is merely a part of the whole issue of city-management and city-policy. I have thus to say right ahead, that I will not oppose any of Peter Senge’s fundamental ideas. I rather will insist on how essential his insights are, in order to avoid the misgivings of traditional modernistic thinking, which is too linear and fragmented to help us understand complex systems like cities. We will follow the plot...
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...rare cases, if the Freudian approach is not acceptable, Jung would implement an equivalent method that would guide the patient to a personal dispute with the archetypes within the collective unconscious(Burger, Ch5, pg101). This dispute aims at the consumption of archetypal images; the individuation process leads to the awareness of the psychic wholeness made in conjunction with the conscious and unconscious. The conscious mind needs to include archetypal materials of the basics of completeness. Jung’s own experiences with schizophrenic people has built up his idea of the collective unconscious. He initially followed the Freudian theory of the unconscious forming wishes that were suppressed and later refined his own theory on the unconscious, the most important part being the archetype. Archetypes make up the structure of the collective unconscious; they are psychic intrinsic dispositions that lead to knowledge and represent human behavior and certain positions (Burger, Ch5, pg102). Things like mysterious and religious involvements, power and failure, and also birth and death are controlled by archetypes. Self is the most important archetype of all; it is the center of the psychic person, the wholeness. It is made up of the unity of both the conscious and unconscious through the individuation process. This archetype concept that Jung writes about comes from the replicate observation that myths and common literature that contains well specified themes that appear all the time...
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...Extending the Human Resource Architecture: Relational Archetypes and Value Creation Sung-Choon Kang Cornell University Shad S. Morris Cornell University Scott A. Snell Cornell University, ss356@cornell.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp Part of the Human Resources Management Commons This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) at DigitalCommons@ILR. It has been accepted for inclusion in CAHRS Working Paper Series by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@ILR. For more information, please contact hlmdigital@cornell.edu. Extending the Human Resource Architecture: Relational Archetypes and Value Creation Abstract Theories of knowledge-based competition focus on internal resources as the source of value creation. The HR architecture (Lepak & Snell, 1999) brought human resource management directly into this forum by developing a model of human capital allocation and management. We attempt to extend the HR architecture by introducing a framework of relational archetypes—entrepreneurial and cooperative—that are derived from unique combinations of three dimensions (cognitive, structural, and affective) that characterize internal and external relationships of core knowledge employees. Entrepreneurial archetypes facilitate value creation from external partnerships while cooperative archetypes facilitate value creation from internal partnerships...
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...Answer 1: The five personality theorists who according to me have made significant contributions to providing insight into dynamics of human behavior are 1. Sigmund Freud- Psychoanalytic theory 2. Carl Gustav Jung- Analytic Psychology 3. Alfred Adler- Individual Psychology 4. William James- The Psychology of Consciousness 5. B.F Skinner- Radical Behaviorism Rationale for the above choices: Sigmund Freud- Psychoanalytic theory: Freud explanation about the Structure of Personality and the psychosexual stages of development are a breakthrough in the history of Psychoanalysis. His contribution led to further Research in this field and many other personality theorists based his study and continued his theory. Even though what Carl Jung has proposed may sound contradictory to what Freud has proposed, each theory has its own significance and clearly explains various aspects of psychology. * Structure of Personality: * Id: Original core out of which the rest of the personality emerges. Stands for untamed passions. * Ego: Stands for reason and good sense * Super Ego: Is like a secret police department, unerringly detecting any trends of forbidden impulses, particularly of an aggressive kind, and punishing the individual inexorably if any are present. * Freud’s theory also clearly explains the concepts like Anxiety, Anna Freud and the Defense Mechanisms, Repression, Denial, Rationalization, Reaction formation, Projection, Isolation...
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... preferring instead to encourage his patients to speak freely by reporting whatever thoughts came to mind. Answer: TRUE Page ref: 17 26. Like Ferenczi, Freud became an adherent of making the analytic situation one in which affection might be more freely expressed. Answer: FALSE Page ref: 17 27. Both Freud and Nietzsche believed that moral convictions arose from internalized aggression. Answer: TRUE Page ref: 18 28. It was clear to Freud that hysteria was a disorder whose genesis required a physiological explanation. Answer: FALSE Page ref: 18 29. Freud discovered the unconscious. Answer: FALSE Page ref: 19 30. Underlying all of Freud’s thinking is the assumption that the body is the sole source of all mental experience. Answer: TRUE Page ref: 19 31. According to Freud, the conscious constitutes a large portion of the mind. Answer: FALSE Page ref: 19 32. When decades-old unconscious material is released into consciousness, the emotional force of the material will have diminished over the passage of time. Answer: FALSE Page ref: 20 33. The number of solutions open to an individual is a summation of biological urges, conscious or unconscious wishes, and a host of prior ideas, habits, and available options. Answer: TRUE Page ref: 20 34. Libido is characterized by a lack of “mobility” or ease of passage from one area of attention to another. Answer: FALSE Page ref: 21 35. In his wish to appeal to the predominant European...
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...feelings, thoughts, attitudes, values, and actions to accomplish their goals. His theory indicates that man’s main thoughts and behaviors are a result of his determination for superiority and power, which can be compensating for any feelings of inferiority (individual psychology, 2012). (NNDB, 2012) Adler’s theory based personality off of the order of birth, gender, and the age gap among siblings. He believed that individuals come up with a childhood story about themself that leads their views and choices throughout life, and being able to cooperate with other people for benefit was the assurance of normal mental health. (Carducci, 2009) Adler’s basic assumptions include that social motivation is designed to increase the benefit of the group over selfish personal benefits. He also believed that the conscious has a great awareness and control over our thoughts and actions, future ambitions are connected to our goals and can explain most of their behaviors,...
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...Theory 1. Thinking which we chose as the central topic would be both experimental and conceptual. 2. The conscious mind includes everything we are aware of, and the unconscious mind feelings thoughts that we are unaware of these underlying influences. b. The Theory of Psychoanalysis 1. The study on mental disorders 2. Dream c. Metapsychology 1. Freud thought of it as something distinct from a clinical theorizing about psychopathology and treatment 2. He felt it was difficult but not impossible concept from physics, economics, and philosophy d. Theory of sexuality 1. 1. He is also known for his theory that all human energy is motivated by sexual desire. 2. He simultaneously developed a theory of how the human mind is organized and operates internally, and how human behavior both conditions and results from this particular theoretical understanding III. Alfred Adler a. Founder of Individual Psychology 1. Adler’s individual psychology presents an optimistic view of people of social interest, feeling equal with human kind 2. Adler’s notion present that behavior is shaped by people’s view of future b. The Adlerian Theory 3. Adler saw people as being motivated by social influence striving for success and superiority and people are responsible for who they are 4. Adler’s specific theories were based on children who struggled with feelings of inferiority between siblings 5...
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...[pic] CARL JUNG 1875 - 1961 Dr. C. George Boeree [pic] Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart throught the world. There in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in his own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with a real knowledge of the human soul. -- Carl Jung Freud said that the goal of therapy was to make the unconscious conscious. He certainly made that the goal of his work as a theorist. And yet he makes the unconscious sound very unpleasant, to say the least: It is a cauldron of seething desires, a bottomless pit of perverse and incestuous cravings, a burial ground for frightening experiences which nevertheless come back to haunt us. Frankly, it doesn't sound like anything I'd like to make conscious! A younger colleague of his, Carl Jung, was to make the exploration of this "inner space" his life's work. He went equipped with a background in Freudian theory, of course, and with an apparently inexhaustible...
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...Running head: WE’VE ALWAYS DONE IT THIS WAY! WE’VE ALWAYS DONE IT THIS WAY! Dale Chaisson Brandman University Self, Systems, & Leadership Dr. Brooks November 21, 2013 We’ve Always Done It This Way! Is it possible for an organization to succeed without some type of Learning System in place? If so, how does one quantify the success statistics? What is the culture like? Does this organization promote upward mobility? These are some of the issues, problems, and concerns I’m faced with in my current situation. Hopefully, during the course of my research and dissection of my organization I’ll be able to pinpoint the ROOT CAUSE. All to often we (human beings) tend to take the least path of resistance of any particular situation at any given time. Well, it’s time to face the music-so to speak. It’s time we cycle back and match our vision with reality. I can remember my first day speaking with the team, boy was that an eye opener! All I heard was, “this is how it’s supposed to be done. However this how WE do it because my way is proven-and has been for the last 30 years. So you just do what I say and you should be okay.” Needless to say, I knew right then and there I had my work cut out for me. As I met more and more co-workers the common theme was, “ just stay under the radar and you’ll be okay.” learning disabilities of this magnitude pose a huge threat to everyone’s forward progress. Yes, my company has a cornucopia of learning disabilities. The following is my...
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...The theories of personality make for an interesting topic of discussion. It has become known that traits and characteristics individuate personality. However, there is single way to describe someone’s personality. Comparing and contrasting Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung; each has perspectives with different and similar basic or underlying assumptions, describing the relationship between deterministic and free will concepts of humanity, and motives for behavior such as awareness of self. Each proposes strengths and limitations within the theory they describe as well. Underlying Assumptions When explaining concepts of personality, one cannot turn a blind eye to Sigmund Freud as he was an innovative mastermind in psychodynamic theory; better known as psychoanalysis. It is a form of theory as well as therapy for individuals to motivate behavior. He treated neurotic disorders for which there were no physical causes leading him to discover psychic determinism. This is an idea that exhibited behavior and personality are determined by psychological factors rather biological conditions or current life events (Westmont Psychology, 2002). He also believes that the unconscious mind controls part of someone’s personality. He explains that the unconscious psychological process determines thought, feelings, and behavior. Thus he created methods for exploring the unconscious known as free association, and analysis of dreams. Two cornerstones of psychoanalysis are sex and aggression because Freud...
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... The book was written during the literary movement, the Beat Generation, in which authors explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-World War 2. The Bell Jar loosely reflected the ideologies this movement, particularly with questioning the societal norms of female expectations. By establishing women archetypes of the 1950s, entering the mental breakdown of Esther, bildungsroman/coming of age, the novel is most accurately comparable to the realism movement. The Bell Jar, embodies William Dean Howells, “life as it” philosophy, it reflects, relates and depicts notions of reality, surrounded by psychological consciousness. In addition, the fact that novel is an autobiography, and as described by Plath’s mother “it showed the basest ingratitude to Plath’s friends and family” (Behrens, 249), further emphasizes the dilemmas and notions day to day life. The role of women in the 1950s, were classified and identified in terms of their relationship to men and society. They were divided into two types: most women were married, submissive wives forced to domestic duties and lewd, unmarried, and vibrant women. Thus, Plath establishes archetypes by “characters of Doreen (the "bad" girl) and Betsy (the "good" girl)” (Cliffnotes.com). Doreen, who was “hard and polished and just about indestructible, and a mouth set in a sort of perpetual sneer." (Plath 4), was a blond, beautiful southern girl who had a insouciance attitude in social situations, and the two share a witty...
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...circumstances in their lives. Shamans share a few main characteristics: 1). They are able to deliberately induce altered states of consciousness, called “ecstasy” or “trance”. Shamans only do this when required to perform certain tasks, such as seeing the future or seeing into illnesses. They are able to enter and leave the state of ecstasy at will (Journal of Analytical Psychology). There are a few ways in which shamans enter a state of ecstasy: • Fasting • Drumming • Dancing • Using psychedelic drugs (ancient-wisdom.com) 2.) Shamans are masters of spirits. When they enter an alternative state of mind, shamans can communicate with spirits. The purpose is to control the spirits and to make them perform a specific task for the shaman. Examples of such tasks are healing an individual, or making enemies ill (Journal of Analytical Psychology). Each shaman has their own spirit helpers which they can control (The Sacred, 100). 3.) Shamans are able to go on “shamanic journeys” when they are in a state of trance. The purpose of the journeys is to obtain information about the world. Usually, shamans are believed to take trips to the middle, upper and lower worlds (Journal of Analytical Psychology). These mental journeys allow shamans to obtain different perspectives of the world and to learn about the nature of things. Examples are seeing over large geographical areas, or...
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...Personality Theorists Assignment | Personal Growth Lab | Submitted by :Neeraja Padman (11PGDMHR32) | ALFRED ADLER – INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY Although his writings revealed great insight into the depth and complexities of human personality, Adler evolved a basically simple and parsimonious theory. To Adler, people are born with weak, inferior bodies—a condition that leads to feelings of inferiority and a consequent dependence on other people. Therefore, a feeling of unity with others (social interest) is inherent in people and the ultimate standard for psychological health. More specifically, the main tenets of Adlerian theory can be stated in outline form. The following is adapted from a list that represents the final statement of individual psychology (Adler, 1964). Alfred Adler postulates a single "drive" or motivating force behind all our behavior and experience. By the time his theory had gelled into its most mature form, he called that motivating force the striving for perfection. It is the desire we all have to fulfill our potentials, to come closer and closer to our ideal. It is, as many of you will already see, very similar to the more popular idea of self-actualization. "Perfection" and "ideal" are troublesome words, though. On the one hand, they are very positive goals. Shouldn't we all be striving for the ideal? And yet, in psychology, they are often given a rather negative connotation. Perfection and ideals are, practically by definition, things...
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