The main focus will be the traces of Freud's ideas on the "Life and Death Drives", "Guilt Complex", "Fixation", "Sublimation", "Dream work" and "Ideal Female complex" in this short story. ... The present study tries to apply traces of psychoanalysis in the short story "The Oval Portrait" using specific technical terms of Freudian psychoanalytics including complexes, obsessions and disorders in human beings : Death Drive or Thanatos, Life Drive or Eros, Melancholy, Displacement, Dream Work, Fixation, Guilt, Sublimation a...

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Though in practice Machiavelli deviates away from this idea, it is not to say that he has rejected justice outright. ... Yet this desire to seek out wealth opens the door for a loss of freedom with the gratitude the republic owes its beneficiaries. ... If freedom is a republic's greatest possession, then ingratitude is the republic's most superior defense against those who will make attempts to steal it away. ...

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Crusoe is thus presented as a man who embodies an economical view on life while concurrently maintaining a spiritual drive. ... It becomes clear how many different opportunities in day-to-day lives hinder spiritual growth and lead away from God. ... Defoe carries on his portrayal of Crusoe as a man who seeks to live out a Christian lifestyle while also remaining true to his natural drive to live economically and practically. ...

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1. What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? Before the year of 1848, the Italian faced a lot of difficulties to urge the unification movement. Until, 1848, the situation had been changed and directly contributed to the unification movement. After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. ...

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