A psychoanalytic approach would indicate that Will's behavior was from his subconscious mind; that his behavior was caused by the impulses from his childhood experiences. ... Later in Will's life he resorts to violence subconsciously due to his childhood abuse. ... In Social-Cognitive theory the mind contains schemas. ... He subconsciously believed that everything that occurred was his fault. ... In Social-Cognitive theory the mind contains schemas. ...

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Freud had an emphasis on how the unconscious mind affects the behavior of people. ... The superego deals with an individual's morals and values within their mind. ... From a high level overview, some of the newer and different concepts and theories of later Neo-Freudian theorists such as Jung, Adler, Horney and Erikson, concluded that there were other stimulus that affected people's behavior, such as environment, and it was not simply the subconscious mind that controlled behavior. ... Freud would have most likely said that the neurosis is derived from the unconscious mind, which can...

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Even if Paul dismisses these actions because of his narcissic tendency to be unconcerned with his peers opinions (the fact that they are rapidly glanced over in the text shows how little importance he accords them), the truth is that they are still happening and his subconscious records that. ... Throughout the story, Paul wears a red carnation to symbolize that his mom his alive in his minds and in his heart, but at the end, he buries that flower under a white blanket of snow, finally making peace with her death. ...

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Funder (2001) also argues that trait theory is an over-simplification of personality that neglects some of the more mysterious aspects of the mind. The psychodynamic approach addresses these aspects, exploring the conscious and subconscious motivations for behaviour. ... There is a parallel between this theory and Charles Cooley's concept of the "looking-glass self" which argues that human interaction reflects the immediate environment, thus serving as a mirror to the mind: "I am what I think you think I am"(Rogers,1997, p153). ...

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