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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If one has read the book, one may have noticed that Paul has a difficult time with relationships, that because subconsciously he is too wrapped up in his own mother. ... Her sons become her bailment in emotion and object of love in spirit, and she even indulges in the affection of her sons, moreover, in her subconscious, she attempts to possess her sons' all love. ...

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The problem here is that the subconscious never sleeps. ... Your subconscious mind asserts itself in the dream and provides all sorts of reasons why this change should be avoided. ... What gain does the subconscious make from this? The simple answer is that there is no gain but the subconscious still retains control in the area, which was being addressed. The subconscious mind is being helpful as far as it is concerned and sees the reasons it provides for avoiding the change as valid. ...

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Amongst the "indelicate" themes interpreted within Goblin Market are homosexuality, incest, drug addiction and the pain of rejected sexual desire. ... Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me Lizzie offers herself as satisfaction for Laura's "passionate yearning" and "baulked desire"; an action that can be interpreted as more erotic than sacramental. ... He suggests that the sisters" relationship is not about a homosexual case of physical love between sisters but is opposed to heterosexual relationships, as an expression of the subconscious incestuous desire: All of us, howe...

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Bless Me, Ultima At the beginning of the Book, The author associates Antonio's concern about the changes in his life to his culture. I think Ultima's entry into Antonio's life will start a stressful time Antonio. The author shows Antonio's feelings about change by depicting his nervousne...

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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 successfully resolved, they contribute to neuroses in later life. ... Caroline's death serves as the catalyst for Victor to experience a psychotic break from reality and begin exploring his forbidden desires resulting from his arrested developme...

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Documentary style shows displaying the lives of teen moms have alluded to the idea that a teenage mother possess a desired and coveted lifestyle, earns a noteworthy income, and has a responsible, involved father in her child's life (Bloomington, 2014). ... Comfort found in social media offers teenagers the opportunity to openly discuss sexual orientation, desires, and experiences (Holden). ... Social media, in particular, opens doors for a subconscious competitiveness – who has the best of the best, how many likes can we get, and how many people will we compare ourselves to with ea...

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It is a well established fact that need and desire effect the creation of our beliefs. Can it then be true that our religious beliefs are but a mere attempt to subconsciously justify ourselves? ... Mankind's relationship with God must be a mutually desired exchange, just as God cannot force us to believe, we cannot force God into dialogue with us. ...

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This pattern is grounded in the characters' fear of intimacy, which is the often subconscious fear of closeness that frequently affects people's personal relationships (Firestone & Catlett, 2013). ... Tom's relationships with women, especially his wife, uncover a deep rooted desire for ego satisfaction over emotional intimacy. ... Her faithfulness and her distress over Tom's affair with Myrtle, might suggest that she desires emotional intimacy with her husband. ... If she does fear intimacy, nothing can make her feel safer than a man who has no desire for intimacy. ...

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More specifically, the suffering comes from our Tanha, which means the desires and cravings we are creating (ibid.). ... In fact, in order to suppress our self-centered desires and consequently, the suffering that is bonded to it, Buddha advises to oppress this artificial Self and attain a state of complete selflessness, called Nirvana. ... This is the only way to cease any desire, which is the cause that is at the heart of our suffering. ... More specifically, one needs to have a complete understanding of all the conscious and subconscious emotions he or she might be experiencing at a specifi...

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In the beginning, perhaps only at the subconscious level, it was also a means of liberation, a door of opportunity leading to personal growth and development which resulted in broader views of women's sphere and responsibility. ... Sought co-operation with other temperance organizations and church ministers in electing temperance men to the legislature who would support their desired laws and amendments; 2. ...

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Therefore, his terror seems to represent a sort of subconscious self-vision. ... By leaving home, Victor had separated himself from all feminine influences, focusing his attention on his quest and repressing all other desires. Thus, it seems that the awakening of the monster represents the expression of his repressed desires, including his longing to satisfy his mother's wishes for his and Elizabeth's union. ... With these words, it seems that Victor desires to be the object of the monster's desire. ... In his second letter to Margaret, Walton writes that he truly desires a frie...

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Stereotypes and subconscious responses to African-Americans have been around since slavery, passed down from generation to generation - or, in a sense, "written down in history with bitter, twisted lies." ... It is biased publications like the BELL CURVE and misvariations of real science that subconsciously affect the way certain groups, including African-American women, are viewed by society as a whole. ...

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In regards to analyzing Lunar Park and Bret Easton Ellis, psychological criticism is the best type of criticism to utilize because of the numerous interactions Bret has with strange individuals, unique creatures and most importantly his subconscious state of mind. ... Bret's lies and vast engorgement in drugs depicts Ellis' subconscious to run from meaningful relationships and cover the pain of his father's death. ...

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She laments the way in which women in cinema are subject to male desires, being accepted or denied and objectified only by the male will, and encourages an advancement in feminist cinema. ... She claims "the mass of mainstream film portray(s) a hermetically sealed world which unwinds magically, indifferent to the presence of the audience, producing for them a sense of separation and playing of their voyeuristic phantasy so that the  osition of the spectators in the cinema is blatantly one of repression of their exhibitionism and projection of the repressed desire on ...

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By conquering the female warrior and marrying her, he fulfills his need for the exclusive love of a woman while satisfying his homoerotic desires. Close bonding fulfills this homoerotic desire with a male companion, such as Demetrius and Egeus. ... She lingers my desires" (McIntosh 1-3). ...

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Advertisements attempt to persuade the subconscious that our lives would be improved if we bought the product on offer. ... Also, the naked picture of naked Jennifer Lopez is rather erotic, and this plays a strong part in women's desires. ... It focuses more on the senses of the women rather than their desires. ...

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Most impressionable at this age, children are subconsciously being taught to fiend for products on television; whether it's toys, clothes, or food. ... In this case, a group of people all desire the new gaming console that just released. ... Instead of the desire to be doctors or engineers when they grow up, the new alternative is just to make money instead (Clay). ... The actions of people who are influenced too strongly by advertisements consist of the desire to earn money and buy goods (Shah). ...

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I had the means of an excellent education placed within my reach; a fondness from some of my studies and a desire to excel in all... " (page 99). ... Rochester's dark and secret past, the eerie noises she hears, the strange behaviors of Grace Poole, or the mysterious figure that rips her wedding veil in two, that are subconsciously telling her that her and Mr. ...

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Tonni Morrison's novel Sula is about two young black girls who become very close friends but soon depart after taking different paths through life. The two young girls grew up in a town in the hills of Ohio called the Bottom. The town received its name from a slave owner who disliked the land and ...

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Critical Synthesis Paper E.T. Introduction to Film I have chosen to write this paper on one of the most influential movies of all times. This film was originally characterized as a children's film, and surprised everyone, including the writers and directors, by appealing not only to children but...

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Faust clearly feels an aversion to self-deception about the privileged status of his scholarly knowledge and desires to escape the dead learning in which he is embedded (and as scholar, embodies). We shortly after see Faust marvel over the sign of the Macrocosm (six pointed star signifying the cosmos in its metaphysical entirety), indicating this desire to know deeper things about the nature of existence, he says of it thus: "Ah-what enchantment at the sight of this Suffuses every sense, what lovely verve! ...

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Part of it is that our subconscious plays a role as part of the receiver. ... When one does not possess the physical appearance they desire, something motivates them to pursue that which they don't have. ...

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By committing to the desire to express daily problems in contemporary life, Lindsay Anderson and Karel Reisz were able to start the Free Cinema Movement. ... This blockage plunges him (and us) into a subconscious dream world of nightmares, fantasies, and flashbacks that interpenetrate his perceptions of the present and jumble narrative logic. ...

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What might seem unattractive, weird, unusual or unpleasant to you could be one person's desires. ... "Women in general, when seen in public places in all their layers of clothing, seemingly modest or only fashionably and conventionally uncovered, appeared as eroticized objects that called for a double vision: underneath the dress was that extension of white teeth, gloveless hands and secretly glimpsed ankles, that thing of beauty and desire.."...

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