... which make visualizations of it possible. I have chosen the classic movie Wizard of Oz to represent some of the different categories of archetypes The mother archetype in Wizard of Oz I believe was Auntie Em. The mother archetype is a mother or mother-substitute, without which we would never have survived. Our connection with this nurturing person during our times as helpless infants, children, and adults ... are automatic. The mother archetype represents caring, nurturing, forgiveness, safety, and love. Even though Auntie Em was not Dorothy's biological mother I think she represented m...

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... time with Dimmesdale in the forest and while at the marketplace, while Pearl's constant perception is shown at its best in the forest with her mother with Reverend Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale's effect on Hester is very significant. He made her the woman she came to be. The affair that she had ... yet she continues to think of the brighter future being together with her daughter and Dimmesdale. Before the procession at the marketplace, Pearl asks Hester, "Mother, was that the same minister that kissed me by the brook?" "Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!" whispered [Hester]. "We must not alw...

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... 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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... strong reason for him to believe this. Freud's childhood consisted of constant sadness and turmoil. His father was 20 years older than his mother, had a couple of children by a previous marriage, and had a mistress throughout the good time of his marriage. His mother had an additional eight children. At one point, there were the eight children, a half-brother the age of Freud ... 's mother, the father, and a nephew all living in the same cramped 30-foot-by-30-foot room. Knowing this, it is not hard to see ... ...

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... of the Unconscious, of stages of ego development were created. The first stage is the containment of an unformed ego. At this stage, the ego has complete dependency on the mother and its environment. The ego at first knows nothing, so it gradually acquires knowledge and awareness. This is used to mark the transition from infancy to childhood. At this stage ... let go of childhood ego-dependencies. Something that happens many times during this stage is the feeling of "killing" the old relationship with the mother, in which they identify with the father and sort of reject the mother. At t...

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... masturbate" (Lawall 1394). Sublimation is the unconscious diversion of unacceptable impulses into more acceptable outlets (Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry 136). Dora's source of sublimation, her feelings of disgust toward her mother, was in the care taking of her father when he was very ill which also led to her feelings of hurt when replaced by Frau K. An example of using wordplay ... describe Freud's view of the Oedipus Complex as it relates to girls. In the Cambridge Companion to Freud, "the girl's first object of love is like that of a boy - the mother" (168). Girls then grow up envyi...

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... the sensory stimuli sleeping and environment intruding. Dreams are also considered the key into understanding our inner conflicts (Freud, pg. 199). This explains why Winston had the dreams of his mother falling into the well(Orwell, pg. 28) He was having conflicts with himself and his doings. He was fighting within himself on what he did. Dreams are information processing. This ... sift, sort, fix experiences in our memory (Myers, pg. 199) Sleep increases following stressful experiences in our unconscious mind (Freud, pg. 469). This also relates to Winston's dreaming of his mother falli...

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... a few scrapes and bruises. Janie was released, and her parents took her home. It was around 10pm, so she went straight to bed. While sleeping she had a frightening dream. Her mother was driving on the highway on her way to work. She was slowing down for traffic ahead of her and the person behind her didn't discern her slowing down, so ... not to worry. Janie then brushed her teeth and went to bed. A few hours later the phone rang, and her dad answered it. It was the hospital calling saying her mother had been in a car accident. Janie and her father then rushed to the hospital. When they...

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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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... as an embodiment of profound female attributes located in the male's subconscious. Dr. Joan Relke, in his article "The Archetypal Female in Mythology and Religion: The Anima and the Mother of the Earth and Sky" states that the anima is many times represented as goddesses in myths. In this vein Siduri, and Ishtar may be viewed as the anima ... ...

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... use at that point and give up. Now that I have use the cipher method to analyze it I will incorporate it to why it is a reoccurring dream. Three years ago my mother died of cancer. One year after that I moved out of my Dad's house and drove to Boston. I had no clue what my new salary was going to be and where ... ...

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... use at that point and give up. Now that I have use the cipher method to analyze it I will incorporate it to why it is a reoccurring dream. Three years ago my mother died of cancer. One year after that I moved out of my Dad's house and drove to Boston. I had no clue what my new salary was going to be and where ... ...

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... bring up the new types of personalities called introversion and extroversion. He wrote a book called Psychological types in 1921 about these two types as they referred to his parents, His mother was the extrovert and his father was the introvert. (Brittanica.com) Introverts are preoccupied with their own little world. "Introverts focus on their own thought and feelings." (Zimbardo Pg.392 ... ...

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... he was 22 years old. Being born to a Jewish family, he was also given a Jewish name: Schlomo. He was born in a Viennese family of three boys and five girls. His mother, Amalia Nathansohn, was 21 when she gave birth to her first child, Sigmund Freud. His father Jacob Freud was 41, married twice and had two children from his first marriage ... ...

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