Writing has always been something I particularly enjoy doing, and I have found in my own life that writing is a great outlet for the expression of creativity. Writing is a meaningful and thought-provoking artistic medium that often goes under-appreciated because contemporary society has put a much greater focus on reading and being the idealized…
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The Problem We All Satirize: Reflection
The literacy narrative I wrote in response to the comparison of the two artworks was meant to dissect the absurdity of the political cartoon while informing the reader on the importance of comedy in all aspects of life. I never found the political cartoon remotely funny, but I understood why it was created and what…
Where Connie’s Mind Has Gone: Reflection
While writing this exploratory essay I was concerned on how much from the Freudian lectures I should include direct from the text. My reasoning for this was because I wanted to clarify to the reader the definitions of wishful impulse, repression, and manifest/latent content but without having to quote the text every time I used…
Dantes and The Count: The Psychoanalytic Dichotomy: Reflection
After writing this essay I feel as if there is much more I wanted to cover that had to be cut out, since I did not want to take away from the Freudian aspects. I included a source that dealt with Dumas as an individual in society and used it in the paragraph preceding the…
Dantes and The Count: The Psychoanalytic Dichotomy
An archetypal theme among writers is creating the sense of ‘inner-separation’ within their protagonist. Often this ‘separation,’ is the motive for their journey, in an attempt to reconcile these opposing forces. Sigmund Freud and his theories are often cited as the foundation of modern psychology, publishing works in the early 1900s that completely changed the…
Where Connie’s Mind Has Gone
Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” exemplifies the nature of repression and wishful impulses as described within the “Five Lectures On Psycho-Analysis,” by Sigmund Freud. We are given an omniscient perspective that often provides insight onto how the protagonist feels. With this information we can rationalize the seemingly demonic antagonist…
The Problem We All Satirize
The comparison by which the classic piece “The Problem We All Live With,” by Norman Rockwell, is seemingly equated to the political cartoon of Betsy DeVos drawn by Glenn McCoy, implies correlation where there is none. However, in the current age of mass media consumption we as a collective are too quick to dismiss ideologies…
