Her physical and emotional growths as well as her sexual awakenings are all part of a tremendous journey through the life of a young girl's development. ... These scenes are in conflict of Freud's theory of psychosexual development in that there exists no defining stages of non-interest and interest in adult sexual matter but rather a constant awakening and maturing as Esmeralda grows toward puberty. ... Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, emphasizes the children's active involvement with their environment and felt it was a collaborative process of life introduction throug...

• Word Count: 1553
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Postmodernism was a movement which took place in the Arts from the 1930's to 1980's, which sought not just to act as a continuation of modernism, but to attempt to reform its modes, which had themselves become conventional, as well as breaking away from elite high art to forms of mass culture, such ...

• Word Count: 1244
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In this essay, the definition of countertransference and transference will be presented and described and the psychoanalytic background will be analyzed. Additionally, later on in the essay, there is an emphasis on the role and the development of transference in psychoanalysis and Freud's point o...

• Word Count: 2105
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein explores many aspects of the conscious and unconscious mind. Shelley uses light and dark throughout the novel to symbolize the duality of the mind, a representation of Victor's conscious and unconscious mind. Victor's conscious behavior is clouded by his unconscious repressed desires, as he struggles with the Oedipus complex, defined as subconscious feelings in children of intense competition and even hatred toward the parent of the same sex, and feelings of romantic love toward the parent of the opposite sex, if these conflicting feelings are not s...

• Word Count: 2532
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate