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Psychoanalytic View of Hamlet, 2004.
An examination of Shakespeare's character, Hamlet, from a psychoanalytical point of view.
1,591 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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"Hamlet" is often viewed as a tragedy, but the character of Hamlet is also a portrait of the human condition. It is by focusing on Hamlet?s humanity that Shakespeare is able to create such a memorable character. Hamlet cannot reconcile his emotion with his reason, and as a result, becomes the perfect case study for the psychological effects of grief, anger, and indecision. This paper analyzes Hamlet?s mental decline and examines how his circumstances contributed to his condition.
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"We are told the years that Shakespeare wrote were ?among the most exciting in English history? (Mowat xxviii). Due to the invention of the printing press, literature was becoming available to those who previously had no way to access it. This ?literary output fed directly into Shakespeare?s plays,? says Barbara Mowat. Hamlet?s depiction of the society he was living in reflects the ?Neoplatonic wonderment at mankind? (xxviii), according to Mowat. The Renaissance was a time of ?intellectual rebirth and religious reformation in Denmark? (Blits). An important aspect of this movement includes the fact that the pagan beliefs ?rediscovered by the Renaissance and pursued by Hamlet emphasizes the radical inwardness of the soul? (Levy). These elements all become apparent through the character of Hamlet as he struggles between the new humanistic beliefs and the old traditional beliefs. Shakespeare skillfully illustrates the inner turmoil man encounters when confronted with such a conflict in thinking in Hamlet. Through Hamlet?s seemingly split personality, Shakespeare is showing us two sides of ourselves."
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Psychoanalytic Therapy, 2005.
An overview of Sigmund Freud's theory of psychoanalytic therapy.
1,381 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper looks at how Sigmund Freud is considered the father of psychoanalysis and how his views are practiced today. It examines how Freud's view models the development of personality, a philosophy of human nature and a method of psychotherapy. It also discusses how he believed human nature is deterministic and determined by internal forces, unconscious motivation, and biological and instinctual drives.
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History
Psychoanalytic View of Personality
Goal of Psychoanalysis Therapy
Typical Problems People Bring to Counselors
Developmental Stages
What to Expect in Counseling
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"The theory of psychoanalysis in treatment creates a blank-screen from which to work from. This aids in uncovering any repressed thoughts and emotions that could be causing the client's neurosis. Here the client is expected to talk freely about the earliest occurrences of childhood memories or symptoms. The therapist does not disclose much about oneself and remains neutral trying to foster a transference relationship. Object-relations theory is a basis for assessment and builds on the client/therapist relationship to determine if there is or was an important person the client was attached to."
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Psychoanalytic Aesthetics, 2002.
Outlines the concept of psychoanalytic aesthetics as portrayed by clinician Hannah Segal.
5,000 words (approx. 20.0 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 126.95
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The psychoanalytic approach to aesthetics enables us to understand the artists' aesthetic experiences as he or she conjures up his perception and response thereof, interpretation and meaning and his or her thoughts and feelings. The paper explains that, primarily divided into applied psychoanalysis and clinical psychoanalysis, the discipline of psychoanalytic aesthetics has been studied and commented upon by many famous psychoanalysts and clinicians over the years. This paper focuses on the comments of clinician Hanna Segal's psychoanalytic approach to aesthetics in general and particularly her quotes on creation and recreation. It examines her comment: ?The essence of the aesthetic creation is a resolution of the central depressive situation and that the main factor in the aesthetic experience is the identification with this process." (H. Segal, 1981).
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"According to Segal, one of the main aims of the artists is to create a world of his own, as Winnicott (1971) also held that the need to create something out of nothing is the main impulse. Segal says that though the artist believes that he is engaged in reproducing the external world, the fact is that the artist is using the external world to rebuild his own inner self. One of the themes used by Segal is of recovering the past and the defragmentation of the pieces."
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Psychoanalytic Theories, 2003.
An essay that explains several concepts in psychoanalytic theories.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This research paper presents an essay using explanatory strategies to explain, compare, contrast, and analyze various psychoanalytic theories.
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"Where Sigmund Freud is the pioneer of psychoanalysis and the psychoanalytical theory of personality, other theorists like Karl Abraham, Carl Jung, Anna Freud and so on and so forth also played a vital role in shaping psychoanalysis by giving birth to distinct psychoanalytical theories. Sigmund Freud observed and established an analogy between the human brain or mind and an iceberg, dividing the iceberg into three and naming each part accordingly. According to this psychoanalytical theory and this brilliant theorist human personality consists of three portions namely id, the ego and the super ego (Underwood). The first part of human personality that is the id ?consists of all the inherited components of personality, including sex drives and aggression. The id seeks immediate gratification of primitive impulses. It operates on the pleasure principle, seeking to avoid pain and maximize gratification? (Underwood). Ego that springs from the id also controls the functioning of the id thereby assisting humans to shape their desires and sexual drives according to their circumstances (Underwood). ?The superego consists of conscience - all those actions the child is reproved for doing - and the ego-ideal - all those things the child is praised for doing."
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Psychoanalytic and Adlerian Therapies, 2007.
This paper gives a brief analysis and comparison of psychoanalytic therapy and Adlerian therapy.
1,162 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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This paper illustrates the major premises behind two forms of psychotherapy, Freud's psychoanalysis and Adlerian therapy. The paper describes both approaches, detailing their development, their use and their potential pitfalls. The writer states that Adlerian therapy is a more optimistic therapeutic approach because of its focus on attainable goals and the positive benefits it offers both patient and therapist.
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Adlerian Therapy
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"Adlerian Therapy takes a positive view of human nature and is both humanistic and goal-oriented. It assumes a person is in control of their own fate and not a victim to it. Starting at an early age, a unique style of life is created by the person and that life-style stays relatively constant throughout the remainder of life. Working toward success, connectedness with others, and contributions to society are considered hallmarks of mental health, as well as being motivated by goals, dealing with the tasks faced in life, and social interest. Birth order is considered important in understanding a person's current personality, yet the therapy is future-minded, rather than retrospective. (Psyweb Pro, 2006) "
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A Psychoanalytic Approach to "Sons and Lovers", 2008.
An analysis of Paul Morel - a character in D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers."
2,013 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper provides an overview of D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" citing different psychoanalytic theories. The author explains that although there is a likeness between the life of D. H .Lawrence and the experiences of Paul Morel, the main character in the story, this essay examines Paul without commenting on any psychoanalytic symptoms regarding the creator.
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"Critics like Alfred Kuttner have started a trend which study on the close relationship between Paul and his mother and interpret this within the Freudian Psychoanalysis as the Oedipal Complex. When examined trough the views of Freud, the mother-son relationship in "Sons and Lovers" is really the type of relationship which Freud names as "oedipal crisis" but it works differently in this novel. Naturally, the mother is the first love object for all boys. They want her attention and her love. Similarly, the two boys of Morels, Paul and his eldest brother William, see their mother as a divine creature and live as her worshippers. Paul imagines that he and his mother will live together when he is old enough to earn money by himself and when his father has died. Paul loves his mother so much that he wants to be with her and spend all of his time with her. To live with his mother by himself is his greatest desire. When Paul gets ill, he sleeps with his mother and for him this is more healing than the medicine.
"Paul loved to sleep with his mother. Sleep is still most perfect in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.(Lawrence 67)
"The quotation above is important in that it shows how much Paul likes being with his mother. He feels secure and relaxed. Not only physically but also spiritually he feels himself healed.
"Of course, each of us loves our mothers too much and our mothers, less or more, are effective in our relationships with others, especially with women. In fact, loving mother too much or her dominance in the relations can not be assessed as an oedipal crisis. There should be a rival for the mother's affection; the father. The father is stronger and superior in many ways to the boy so at the beginning, they are jealous of their father and the father is seen as an enemy and is hated by the boys. Moreover, as Paul does, they sometimes wish him die."
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Freud and his Psychoanalytic Theory, 2002.
An understanding of Freudian childhood issues, followed by a set of critiques of Freudian thought.
4,900 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 15 sources, $ 178.95
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This paper will take the theoretical position; that the whole of Freudian theory is best contemplated in terms of childhood development/socialization. Moreover, an even enterprising position is that once examined, this crucial and fundamental part of Freud's endeavor, as well as psychoanalytic theory as a whole, can only be further explicated in terms of critiques. In other words, any "in-depth examination" of Freudian theory must include a large portion of critical material.
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Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory, 2003.
Examines the historical and cultural context of Freud's theory.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 14 sources, $ 63.95
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Discusses the influence Freudian theory has had on psychoanalytic theory and practice, how Freudian theory is used to understand human behavior, Freud's explication of human psychology and behavior, and his major work on dreams.
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"This research examines the contribution of Freudian psychoanalytic theory to the understanding of human behavior. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical and cultural context in which Freudian theory emerged and then discuss what ..."
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"Hamlet", 2005.
An analysis of William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet," with a focus on Hamlet's fear of culpability.
1,198 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses the play, "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare, claiming that the fear of culpability and having to answer to the community is much greater for Hamlet than fear of the law and even fear of God. The paper contends that, by virtue of answering only to an abstract other, Hamlet answers only to himself. The paper explains that his fear of being held responsible is a fear mediated by an unspecified community that is never seen, yet never disregarded. The absence of a specific general community shows that the culpability Hamlet so fears is as unfixed and intangible to him as his own personality.
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"Shakespeare's play Hamlet presents the audience with a protagonist who defines himself by what he does not want to be. When pressed towards action, Hamlet will often think less about what to do and more often about how what he will do is to be perceived by others. This persistent reliance upon definition of character through the negation of action seems to be tied to Hamlet's fear of culpability that, like the ghost of his father, haunts him throughout the course of the play. This is quite an immature posture for a thirtysomething Prince, and indeed can easily be read as childishness. The nature of his childishness is not the simply the result of immaturity, however, but the result of a growing concern about light being cast on the horrible revenge he thinks about and acts towards achieving but never fully does. Hamlet's fear of being seen as a culpable entity, particularly in the case of his desire to murder Claudius, causes problems because it makes him impotent to action and this impotence makes him a wildly unfocused character who is, in the final estimation, deeply shallow."
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"Hamlet", 2004.
An analysis of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," with a focus on Hamlet's oedipal complex.
2,200 words (approx. 8.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper reviews the play, "Hamlet," by William Shakespeare. The paper contends that "Hamlet" is a complex play and can support a wide variety of interpretations. The paper describes one aspect of the psychology of the main character that harks back to the ancient world and the story of Oedipus, who was ordained to kill his father and marry his mother, which he unwittingly did. This story would later serve as a source for Sigmund Freud as he developed his oedipal theory, and the paper explores a similar idea that is played out by Hamlet in terms of his mother and father. The paper explains that Hamlet does not kill his own father, but he does have to kill his step-father at the behest of the ghost of his father and plays out the idea of sexual jealousy because his mother has remarried.
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"In Hamlet as in other Elizabethan drama, the fate of kings is tied to the order of the universe, and dissension and tension in one is reflected in the other. Yet, the issue is complex, and while the usurper has no right to rule, it is not always clear who has the right to prevent him from ruling. The hesitation of Hamlet, much commented on by critics, may derive from the fact that while he knows Claudio to be a regicide, to kill Claudio would make him a regicide as well. The usurpation of the throne leads to a more dangerous and uncertain environment in the land, and nature concurs by expressing through storms and other travails visited upon the people that a great political wrong is also a great moral and religious wrong. The effects of a regicide are seen in storms and the like because such actions offend the gods, or God."
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"Hamlet", 2007.
An analysis of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet", focusing on Hamlet's delay in killing Claudius.
2,319 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper explores why Hamlet delayed the revenge of his father's death by killing Claudius, in William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet". The author examines several possible explanations about why Hamlet did not take immediate revenge including fear of becoming king, suffering from an Oedipus complex, fear of the ghost and other factors that may have played a part in Hamlet's reluctance to exact revenge on the man who killed his father.
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"Along those same lines have been arguments that Hamlet was mentally stable but to weak minded to make a decision as strong as deciding to commit murder. This theory is not one that is easily supported however because he shows in many instances during the play that he can make a decision when he needs to. He also does not display weakness when he first begins killing characters. Whatever caused him to delay in the killing of his stepfather probably had more to do with the task of killing Claudius than the act of killing in itself."
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"Hamlet": Act III Scene II, 2002.
This paper is an analysis of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet,", and goes into detail about Hamlet's elaborate plan to expose the king as the murderer of his father.
1,185 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 40.95
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This is an analysis of the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. Special attention is paid to the scene where the real murderer of the king is divulged. The author explains how this is a pivotal scene as it solves the mystery that has been building up until that point.
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"Act III, Scene II is important for a number of reasons. Essentially, it is the start of the second half of the play. It could be argued that the first half of the play is when Hamlet sets up his strategy to avenge his father?s death. Naturally, the second half would then be Hamlet taking the vengeance he so baldy wants. Unfortunately for nearly all parties involved, it does not happen how he planned. In Act III Scene II, Claudius? guilt as well as his moral values had been exposed for all to see. Hamlet?s underhanded slyness was also revealed by his non-confrontational means of proving the king?s role in the murder of his father. Lastly, the reader also discovers the queen?s apparent innocence."
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Theme of Insanity in Hamlet, 2006.
This paper discusses the theme of insanity in the character Hamlet in the tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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In this paper, the writer demonstrates that Hamlet has ultimately realized true insanity, as he has acted out his madness in a disguise that has failed on a large scale. The writer discusses that in this manner, the critical views of Grady offer greater insight into a psychological case for insanity for Hamlet in the play. The writer also shows that critic Harold Bloom does show a variety of behaviors that might present Hamlet's insanity as a disguise.
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"This study reveals critical theory and interpretation that often revolves the character Hamlet in William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. By assessing modern critical theory on Hamlet's character, one can understand that many critics agree on Hamlet's insanity within the play, and how this links to his own tragic fate in the play. By offering different theoretical analysis of this aspect of Hamlet's character, we can understand why psychology--via madness and insanity--are how twentieth century critics view Shakespeare's portrayal of Hamlet in critical perspectives. In the first appearance of the Ghost (Hamlet's dead father) in the beginning of the play, reveal the first delusional image that Hamlet receives."
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Hamlet and Laertes, 2005.
A study of the relationship of Hamlet and Laertes in 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper studies the character of Laertes as a foil or mirror image of the character Hamlet. Throughout the play, Laertes actions and responses seem to be a mirror of the character, Hamlet, both physically and verbally.
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"In William Shakespeare's tragedy of 'Hamlet', the character of Laertes can be seen as a foil or a mirror of the protagonist Hamlet. This comparison extends throughout the play, as Laertes' responses to the murder of his father Polonius, the death of his sister Ophelia, and even his general philosophy of life can be interpreted not simply a mirroring of Hamlet but as a sort of running commentary on Hamlet's words and actions. In this context, this essay will argue that Shakespeare employs Laertes as a dramatic foil to Hamlet, allowing audiences more illuminating insights into the character and actions of the protagonist."
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"Hamlet" and "Oedipus the King", 2005.
Character analysis of Prince Hamlet in "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare and Oedipus in ?Oedipus King? by Sophocles.
807 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 28.95
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In this paper, a character analysis of both Prince Hamlet and Oedipus is conducted, arguing that both characters have exhibited tragic flaws that ultimately determined their downfall in life.
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"In Aristotle?s literary discourse, ?Poetics,? he discusses his theory of tragedy, wherein he introduces the concepts of tragic flaw or ?hamartia,? which serves as the catalyst for the protagonist?s downfall or the tragedy of the story to happen. He determines a tragedy as a ?drama? that brings about a ?sorrowful conclusion, arousing fear and pity in the audience? (Roberts and Jacobs, 1998:1189). Tragic stories are identified through three (3) characteristics or elements: first, the protagonist, usually a male, must be of noble stature; second, the protagonist or tragic hero must possess a tragic flaw or ?hamartia? that shall become his downfall at the end of the story; and third, the hero?s downfall must come with a self-realization on his part, making him a ?reformed? individual even if a tragic outcome happens to him."
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