Regardless of Hester's conscious morality, she is playing out her subconscious desires, which is distinctly Freudian. ... While Hester is actually acting upon her id, their subconscious minds project identical desires. ... Since the Puritan woman share the same desires as Hester does subconsciously, they too would probably give in to their id if they were under the same circumstances as Hester. However, people do not search if their desires are already fulfilled. ... Hester while not particularly carrying a lot of shame morally, is still playing out the subconscious desires of the who...

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Regardless of Hester's conscious morality, she is playing out her subconscious desires, which is distinctly Freudian. ... While Hester is actually acting upon her id, their subconscious minds project identical desires. ... Since the Puritan woman share the same desires as Hester does subconsciously, they too would probably give in to their id if they were under the same circumstances as Hester. However, people do not search if their desires are already fulfilled. ... Hester while not particularly carrying a lot of shame morally, is still playing out the subconscious desires of the who...

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In the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, the family is broken up due to the desires of both Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. ... Blanche desires what her sister has all though it is not much. ... She wants a cultured man but is often subconsciously attracted to strong, macho male characters, perhaps a response to her marriage with a cultured, sensitive man which ended in disaster. ... Stanley desires a woman who is cultured, who has seen the world and has the ability to be outspoken. ... The rape scene depicts that Stanley is no longer able to control his des...

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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. ... By continuing to creatively construct ideological reality that links products to group's desire, through subliminal or persuasive tricks that attract the subconscious, advertising has paved its own way to control the market. ... This type of recall is visceral and natural, pleasing the id and subconscious yearnings rather than an act of cognitive functioning. ... These ads are designed to play with your subconscious and stimu...

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The difference though, is the conscious, and the subconscious. ... They all discuss the differences between the conscious and the subconscious. ... Jung composed his theories of the subconscious into 4 different aspects of the subconscious; the ego, super ego, the id and a collection of archetypal images that can be inherited of the same group. ... And without dreams, there would not be a subconscious state of mind, and without a subconscious you develop insomnia or insanity. ... The reason why a person needs to dream is because it is a time away from reality and a time to reflect upon their w...

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These messages are invisible by the conscious mind, but supposedly affect the subconscious or deeper mind. ... These messages are roaming through our subconscious thoughts continuously causing us to innately desire them. Since all humans, at some point in their lives, crave or desire sex it is the most commonly used and most effective subliminal message. ... " People believed this ad was intentionally attacking the subconscious mind of many Americans on a subliminal level. ... Subliminal messaging attacks the subconscious mind of millions whether it is positive or negative. ...

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Repressed Desires We live in a society that promotes freedom, yet oppresses our innate desires and inclinations. ... As a mortal, Lucy constantly fights to repress her inner desires in order to adhere to societal ideals of proper behavior. ... She subconsciously acts out her fantasy of " [taking Arthur] up to the seat on the churchyard cliff- by sleepwalking there to meet with Dracula instead. ... The passing of bodily fluids between Lucy and the young children symbolizes the open expression of her hedonistic desires. ... Vamped Lucy appears livelier because she is able to act out Lucy's...

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Surrealist ideas often conform to anti-logical depictions under a subconscious influence. ... The colour in Miro's work, unlike that of Accommodations of Desire, contributes to the two-dimensionality of the composition. ... One man, who speculatively can be middle-aged Dali, is holding a lion - symbol of desire - and putting his right hand in the lion's mouth as if to say he is happily feeding his desires. ... This observation points to Dali's own evolution as an artist: embracing his life and giving in to his desires and perhaps temptations. ... Accommodations is an expression ...

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There is Freud's theory that dreams carry our hidden desires and Jung's theory that dreams carry meaning, although not always of desire, and that the dreamer can interpret these dreams. ... My own personal theory on why we dream is that the subconscious mind is always working. ... The subconscious mind in an attempt to file away all of the information from the previous day results in dreams. ...

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They can even bring a subconscious connection to the poem when used correctly. ... In the poem "Anyone Who Had A Heart", Phillips talks about the idea of sex being a need rather than a want, and how it's desired. ... Now, they are stallions with strong emotions and passionate desires although they could be perplexing. ... In the end, desire may turn out to be no different from any other song – sing, and be at last released from it" (Phillips 5). ... Phillips managed to use a horse to imply feelings, deliver a subconscious feeling to the reader, and bring power to ...

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Eliot related the water, the sea to the subconscious in The Wasteland. ... Golding also makes use of the sea, the water to make reference to the subconscious. According to Freud the subconscious, something resides between the conscious and the unconscious, has a will and a purpose of its own. ... It represents desires that would otherwise be unacceptable in the social world, it represents desires or emotions or traumatic episodes that have repressed. ... " Perhaps it is this dire need to be in power, this inner desire to be the leading one that also leads them to this beats. ...

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It is necessary to find a realization of our faults, a desire to battle temptation and a strong will to fight off greed. Greed is an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth. ... Greed, personal satisfaction, envy, and jealousy contribute to the tribulations humans must subconsciously battle in all of they"re lifetime, and the constant battle against temptation is never ending. Greed is an excessive desire for something. ... Once they get what they want, they will desire and lust it even more. ...

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Their experimental methods of gaining insight into the meaning of dreams are also similar as evidenced by both men's extensive work on analyzing the subconscious desires and associations contained within their patients" dreams. According to Freud, the themes present throughout our dreams reflect our unconscious thoughts and desires and, many times, this "important unconscious material has been disguised through symbolism" (Burger, 2004). ...

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This shows a subconscious decision she makes to which door she takes, either to adulthood or childhood. ... This symbolizing her subconscious desire acknowledgement of sex. ... "The whole course of the story is perhaps to be explained by the desire for complete virility, conflicting with the desire for abnormal satisfaction. ... The importance of the latter, however, in the dreamer's subconscious, when disconnected from the extraverted emotion" (Goldschmidt). ...

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Freud theorized that all small boys select their mother as their primary object of desire. They subconsciously wish to usurp their fathers and become their mothers' lover. Typically, these desires emerge between the ages of three and five, when a boy is in what Freud defined as the phallic stage of development. Because the child suspects that acting on these feelings would lead to danger, these desires are repressed, and leading to anxiety. ...

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Freud distinguished between the surface content of dreams and their latent content-the hidden, unconscious thoughts or desires that he believed were expressed indirectly through dreams. In dreams, according to Freud, people allow themselves to express instinctive desires that are relatively free of moral controls. ... For example, the desire kill your own father may be placed into the dream as seeing him off at an airport. ... If this is true, then an indirect cause to these dreams would be the events that result in those subconscious feelings. ...

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Without fully understanding or questioning our desire to acquire, we repeatedly aim to obtain 'things' merely for superficial reasons, often, under the pretences of trying to satisfy our basic needs. ... On a subconscious level, this acquisition of the rare suggests that one must be worthy of this exceptional responsibility and honour – further elevating their status. ...

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Are dreams subconscious thoughts and desires influenced by the events of our day? ... Dreams are a blessing in disguise and a way to figure things out without stressing about them, using your subconscious and also just a way to dream to let loose and go for the impossible. ...

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The hypnotist is able to speak to the person's subconscious mind, directly bypassing their normal conscious thoughts and defenses, influencing them on their most basic level of thought. ... The Christopher Nolan movie Inception deals with a similar idea concerning the subconscious. ... Yet there is an important, and similar truth shared by both hypnotism and Inception: the subconscious mind influences and directs conscious action, often more than many realize. Infiltrate this subconscious and it is possible to influence, and perhaps even control, behaviors, attitudes and thoughts. ... One...

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As the party gains the subconscious minds of the people, free for molding and use as slaves, they gain and maintain power over every other command in the world. ... There are many instances in the real world where people have desired power many wonder why one would want so much power in the first place. Plato's theory on the desire for power being fueled by the fear of being forgotten seems to be the most accurate in my mind, and 1984 appears to be the perfect example of these fears being put into play. ...

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The knowledge withheld in the subject of sociology goes beyond the conventional to provide illuminating and challenging understandings of social desires. ... The desire to conform to the ideas and aspects of others, assimilation, is an inclination for all. ... Everything experienced from birth and onward affects the personality and attitude of a person; books, surroundings, magazines, billboards, and anything involving technology has an especially powerful influence upon our subconscious as the culture sinks in. ...

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It also lets the viewer's subconscious play an important part in the interpretation of the images. This may be why the images can be seen as more shocking than the sexually graphic images, because the viewer is forced to draw on their own subconscious for meaning. ... The symbolic signs are the flowers, which are standing in for the male sexual organs and or the desire for sex, which are then the signifiers. ... The viewer draws on there own subconscious desires as to how much of a symbolic reference can be made, to aid in this discovery the surrounding images allude to that po...

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However, this interpretation seems unlikely according to other critics who suggest that the author has in fact, entered the reader into the subconscious mind of Connie, a vain teenage girl as she unknowingly explores the consequences of a premature leap into adulthood. ... May and Oates's Connie: an unlikely pair of religious initiates-, Nancy Bishop Dessommes insists that, "Arnold appears as a representation of all Connie's desires and fears- (Dessommes 437). ... It is more likely that Arnold Friend is omniscient and is therefore a creation of Connie's own subconscious. His ...

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However, Jim's subconscious picked up on the images and triggered his sensation of hunger. The theater also released the scent of popcorn throughout the room in an extremely small dose to stimulate Jim subconsciously. ... Once again, these signals were only picked up by Jim's subconscious senses. ... Dan Lee Dimke that allows an individual to add their own desired messages on their tapes (Howell 1). ... Subliminal messages are words or images with the intent of going beneath the level of consciousness and causing a subconscious effect on the perceiver (Myer 141). ...

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When darker forces of the human nature inwardly harass one, one is forced by the evilness of desire that leads to competition and being an introvert. ... When a young person doesn't know what they thirst for in life, they are forced to desire the impossible. ... It was a spur of the moment type of thing in that he subconsciously hoped it would bring Finny down to the same level as him. ... Desiring the unimaginable leads to unreal competition. ... For the one who desires the impossible, competes with those who will always win and often keeps there true emotions to themselves will breakdo...

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