He subconsciously blames Jesus rather than his father, because he sees Jesus as the safer target. The question is why did The Misfit subconsciously see his father as a threat? Perhaps his father was abusive to him as a child, which could have led to his subconscious fear of his father. ... He cannot deal with the real truth so his mind opts to take on a different truth. ... The Misfit had become overwhelmed with anxiety for what he had done, until his mind simply rejected the truth. ...

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One of the most significant ways in which to attempt to uncover the motives which define an individual's personality is to consider the unconscious metal processes of that person's mind. ... Although Jung's method of studying the unconscious mind, known as analytical psychology, was originally derived from Freud's process of psychoanalysis, disagreement and conflicting views on a number of issues soon arose, severing the friendship they once had. ... Their experimental methods of gaining insight into the meaning of dreams are also similar as evidenced by both men's e...

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Freud believed that all of our actions were chosen subconsciously by our unconscious and then put forth into action. ... Most people dream of what is on their mind at that specific time and in most cases it is not related to sex. ... Creativity is a vital part of society today and in Freud's mind there was no creativity. ...

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Psychologists define dreams as visual and auditory experiences that our minds create during sleep; yeah, like that clears anything up for me. ... 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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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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Laura Mulvey's take on the "male gaze" in cinema in her essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" relies on psychoanalytic theory to highlight the role of the patriarchal subconscious of society in films, as well as the threat of castration in the presence of a female character in the midst of a male-dominant storyline. ... Based on this idea, the presentation of the characters in film is arguably developed with the spectator in mind. ...

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This emphasizes biological determinants of behavior, ego, the conscious part of the psyche which controls behavior and thought processes, and the super ego, the unconscious division of the mind that is molded by the internalization of moral standards of authority such as; parents, society and censors, which restrains the ego. ... Because of this, Howard subconsciously uses the conscious part of her mind, her ego, to predict control over her environment. ... The biggest factor of this part of the psyche is the conscience, the part of the mind which allows regret and sympathy. ...

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