The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne delivers the insights and thoughts of the many main characters of the novel. Hester Prynne's intuition about certain situations unveils her innermost spirit. Her daughter, the illegitimate Pearl is also another character of great perception. Pearl's psyche on Hester's scarlet letter and her relationship with the Reverend Dimmesdale show how insightfully her mind really works. The subconscious of Hester Prynne is shown openly during her 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 with Dimmesdale caused a great commotion among the Puritan people in Boston at that time. Yet it made her the even stronger contemplative woman she merged on to be. Hester's strong feelings for Dimmesdale were never truly displayed until the forest scene. " She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest her intellect and heart had their home- these were the deep thoughts Hester had been meddling with ever since she contacted once again with Dimmesdale (Hawthorne 182). Her way of thinking is described as one of the concepts used in the famous psychologist Carl Jung's understanding of man. He believed that the unconscious of a person is the sum total of the psychic activities that elude that individual's direct knowledge of himself or herself. Therefore, Hester's decision made at the forest to escape with Dimmesdale on the next ship to England is pure instinctive intuitive. She believes that that is the only way out of things. Hester lets her mind run free as she expressed all her feelings for Dimmesdale in the forest. She does not know for a fact if everything will work out for her and Pearl but yet she continues to think of the brighter future being together with her daughter and Dimmesdale.
Our minds are unknowingly divided into two parts: the conscious and the unconscious; and with the unconscious mind we have a few benefits and a few drawbacks. The first benefit of the unconscious is the way it's hardwired. ... The unconscious, for example, is very similar to an iceberg. ... Our unconscious mind is like a safe. ... Our unconscious mind is the core of our minds. ...
"Is It Impossible to Have an Unconscious Thought" The article that I reviewed argued against the concept of an unconscious thought and the effect that it has on a person's normal and abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The basis for this argument is that an unconscious thought has no way of being measured. ... Therefore, how can we prove that an unconscious thought exists or doesn't exist? The writer of this article goes on to talk about our dreams and behaviors and the effect that our unconscious has on these. The writer decides that it is more the question of percei...
"Consciousness and Unconsciousness" Descartes using the method of doubt, tries to create a firm foundation for new sciences. ... "What is unconscious can, through efforts, be made conscious, and in the process we may have the feeling that we are often overcoming very strong resistances." ... Repression, a fundamental, usually unconscious function of the ego maintains equilibrium in the individual by repressing inappropriate, unfeasible, or guilt-causing urges, memories and wishes (all usually of the id) to the level of the unconscious, where they will be out of sight, if not out of mind. ....
From the family constellations of Hellinger, we now move to the collective unconscious of Jung (McCarthy, 2002). ... From there, it was an easy step for Jung to create the unconscious archetypes (McCarthy, 2002). ... Therefore, the collective unconscious is an evolutionary link with things that happened in the past (McCarthy, 2002). ... While Jung offers his theory of the collective unconscious, that is to say, that the personal unconscious contains motivations and symbols that tend to drive conscious decisions, Hellinger notes that the actual unconscious is the family dynamics and what an i...
In this manner, Carl Jung establishes the collective 'dreams' of cultures and coins the term "Collective Unconscious" (Relke, 2007). The Collective Unconscious refers to instinct shared by all humanity (Collective) that manifests in universal images or concepts whose origin lies deep within the human psyche (Unconscious). ... In this vein Siduri, and Ishtar may be viewed as the anima manifest within the myth of Gilgamesh; moreover, Gilgamesh's final acceptance of his mortality and the ineffability of the eternal may be viewed as a reflection of the individual's r...
In Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood, the narrator employs the unconscious complexities that many of the characters have, as well as the Jungian archetypes that many of them categorically fall into in order to highlight not only the characters' grotesque, mental qualities, but also the emotional distresses that the characters may suffer from throughout the novel. ... The readers' unconscious understanding of this archetype allows them to view Onnie Jay Holy under a negative light. ... Ultimately, the narrator is able to effectively call to the readers' unconscious psyche...
While some argue that Arnold Friend is a psychopathic killer or Satan incarnate, he is actually a collection of Connie's unconscious thoughts and desires in human form. ... Some say that Arnold Friend is really representative of Satan, while others have concluded that he is a psychopathic murderer; however, he is actually a collection of Connie's unconscious thoughts and desires come to life in "uncontrollable nightmare form" (Wegs 1253). ... Arnold Friend carries a vast knowledge of Connie not because he is a stalker or possesses supernatural abilities, but because he is a par...
The desires that can't be obtained or fulfilled are packed or repressed into a place where Freud calls it the unconscious. Because it contains repressed desires, things that our conscious mind isn't supposed to want and to know about, the unconscious is inaccessible to the conscious state of mind. Freud believed surfacing the repressed desires from the unconscious by psychoanalysis therapy. ... Prescription To achieve this balance requires a long process of therapy sessions over a period of years by encouraging the patient to talk of whatever is on their mind or to talk out the r...
One way that the adaptive unconscious is used is advertising. ... One, our adaptive unconscious is a powerful mechanism. ... Two, our adaptive unconscious can be tricked. ... What Masten and Rhea have done is utilize the adaptive unconscious. ... The adaptive unconscious is always at work. ...
