... archetype. In order to be a free individual, one must symbolically kill off their mother archetype. Dunstan does this not only when he flees from his real mother, but also when he breaks off his relationship with his girlfriend, Diana Marfleet, who acts as a mother figure. Diana was the symbolic mother of his rebirth, as she was the one who renamed him. After their break ... 's perspective, "two splendid things had happened: Diana and I were friends instead of lovers, and I had an excellent new name " (Davies, 86). Dunstan was now free of his physical and symbolic mother, thus allowing h...

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... acts to redirect unacceptable urges or drives toward a more acceptable alternative. A typically Freudian example of this would be the child, no longer an infant, who desires to suckle at his mother's breast. As he knows that this action is no longer acceptable, he redirects or displaces this drive toward the sucking of a lollipop, thus satisfying the urges of the id in ... sculpture (Schultz & Schultz, 1994). Reaction formation is transforming an unacceptable feeling or desire into its more acceptable opposite. Gray (1999) gives the example of a young woman who unconsciously hates her m...

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... that dreams not only had content which related to individuals but stemmed from what he termed "collective unconscious". He called recurring dream characters such as the child, the mother or the wise old man "archetypes" claiming they were universal and symbolic images contained in the unconscious human mind. Subsequent scientific studies of dreaming do not support either ... ...

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... and transformed into memories which can be worked through and reintegrated into a more mature psyche. Fromm proposed a broader concept of transference. He believed the analyst represents infantile authority, like the mother who solves all of her child's problems or the father who is never satisfied with his son's accomplishments. Instead of facing reality independently the patient continues to transfer interpersonal struggles ... ...

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