Since the id's desires can't be met due to societal oppression, people hope to fill the objects of their deepest desires with commodities and products. ... Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud and the creator of the first major advertising campaigns, exemplified Freud's teachings and understood that the objects of a human's deepest desires can be fulfilled with products through the generated ideas that they could be made to exemplify. ... Persuasive advertising, such as Bernays campaign, appeals to the consumer's basic instinct and emotion, attaching psychological val...

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Within each stage there are conflicts between the rules of society and the sex drive. ... During this time the child is feeling attracted to their parent of the opposite sex. ... They will also begin to identify with the parent of their own sex, since they want to be like them to win over the parent of the opposite sex. Men who cannot get past this stage are anxious and have guilty feelings about sex, fear of castration, and narcissistic personalities. ... Women are also seen as objects and invoke a retarding influence on society. ...

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In order to obtain pleasure the Id utilizes the primary process which as a result attempts to reflect tension by creating a memory image of an object. ... Since Freud strongly focused on the sex instinct, libido is often used in reference to sexual energy. ... This happens when the child develops a deep sexual attraction for the parents, the opposite sex, and hatred of the parent of the same sex. ...

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The child has unconscious desires for parent of opposite sex. Male: Oedipus complex, boy sees mother as love object. ... Object-relations theory is a basis for assessment and builds on the client/therapist relationship to determine if there is or was an important person the client was attached to. ...

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This is because at the latency stage both boys and girls repress their feelings towards sex or penis envy and due to this there is a decline in sexuality. They start to move off in single sex groups in order to gain their own identity. ... This is when an infant starts to show preference for human objects which look and smile. ...

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Sigmund Freud, in his book "Civilization and Its Discontents," states that people are unhappy due to the establishment of society which creates restraints on their instinctive impulses. On the other hand, Friedrich Nietzsche, in his book, "On the Genealogy of Morality," says that there is hope for h...

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As previously stated within the presence of an object craved, adrenaline also known as epinephrine is unleashed. ... "We must recognize that the soul is a different sort of object from the body - so much so that it does not depend on the existence of the body for its functioning, and can in fact grasp the nature of the forms far more easily when it is not encumbered by its attachment to anything corporea....

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Dreams and Freudian Theory Dreams have been objects of boundless fascination and mystery for humankind since the beginning of time. ... It has been objected on more than one occasion that we in fact have no knowledge of the dreams that we set out to interpret, or, speaking more correctly, that we have no guarantee that we know them as they actually occurred. ...

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Sigmund Freud, in his research in dream analysis, discovered infantile sexuality and founded the 'Oedipus complex', which constitutes the erotic attachment of the child for the parent of the opposite sex, together with hostility towards the other parent. ... The concept of a woman warrior as outlined in both the Xena series and Cassandra is distanced from the cultural familiarity, where a woman is often the object of war not the protagonist. ...

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For example, to state that every person wants to have sex with their own mother and eliminate their father would be not too short of claiming that human nature is fundamentally evil and dark. ... Object relations psychologists claim that the most basic drive is not one for reproduction...

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INTRO: The word personality comes from the Latin word persona which means mask and is a dynamic and ordered set of characteristics possessed by a person that uniquely influences their emotions, and motivations in certain situations. Personality also refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings, socia...

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