Jung's Active Imagination Analysis

Similar to the Sandman, in our developing consciences, a symbol can take over the full function and the significance of what it symbolizes, manifesting as a fear, a morbid anxiety, or a repression in our minds. Conclusively, Freud ends his essay on the over-accentuation of psychical reality in comparison with physical reality, being closely allied to the belief in the omnipotence of thoughts and the power of manifestation of mental perception and identity. Freud leaves readers with a question of the uncanny and whether or not we have a familiar secret that has yet to be revealed to our developing

(Facts About Dreams). According to Hannah Nichols, there are a lot of reasoning behind why we dream. Some have included the unconscious desires and wishes to interpret signals from the brain and body while sleeping, to build up and process information collected during the day. Researchers have figured out that dreaming is primarily offline memory reprocessing-consolidates learning and memory tasks. This is a subsystem of the waking default network, which is active during mind unsettling and daydreaming.

How Dreams Affect Reality In the works of Chester Himes there is an underlying theme of dreaming. Throughout his various stories Himes uses dreams to function as a retreat for his characters. In his short story “The Meanest Cop in the World”, Himes is able to concoct an entire story that is descriptive and lifelike, which the readers just assume is real. However, when the curtain is pulled back at the end and Himes tells the readers that the entire thing is just a dream the readers are shocked. Dreams have a very specific function in Himes’ stories as fantasies to keep the prisoner’s minds occupied.

Salvador Dali had a vivid mind filled with altered images of everyday things in which they all symbolized something, all sort of made from a dream realm. Dali envisioned his paintings all based on a dream state and were based on the ideas of Sigmund Freud. Freud said once that dreams are created based on secret desires and inner wants. Dali painted his paintings on his inner desires and fears, but also based many of them around central ideas from scientific gatherings. The Persistence of Memory, for example, is said to revolve around the idea of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

Author Ken Kesey, in his novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, exemplifies that people can be both mentally and psychically manipulated. He supports his claim by first using examples, then using analysis, and finally using rhetorical questions. Kesey’s purpose is to enlighten the reader in order to exemplify the idea that everything is not always what it seems. He adopts a dark tone for the reader. In, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, people are manipulated through fear.

The role of the therapist in relation to the client is also explored, and explains just how important this relationship and type of therapy is to the field. The main idea of this research piece is to analyze psychoanalysis, and the therapeutic process as a unit working in tandem with each other. Overview of Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their unconscious

Moreover, he claims that he has mental images about the external world and explains how he gets those images when he doesn’t have a body or senses. He is a thinking thing, which has an ability to form mental images, and gain wisdom about the outer world through senses. But since, he assumes that he is in a dream all of his senses are falsified so, he just thinks that he sense those things and concludes that sensing is just thinking. He later continue with the physical objects and their reality, he takes a wax as an example because taking a general concept

In the modern world, when Freud and Jung came with new theories about the human mind and subconscious, explaining dreams and the human conscience, even literature itself began to be preoccupied with what are the human reactions to certain images, a reason why the horror literature is so visual and full of descriptions about images and sounds rather than feelings. Through H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard and many authors that wrote horror literature, we can observe that their stories describe situations that may be associated with the primitive state, situations that bring us back on the time when religion and belief were founded based on the idea of death. It is because although we live in a modern world and we may call ourselves far more civilised than our ancestors, we still see death as a mystery which leads to many unanswered questions. Of course, there are many theories, scientifical or religious, but what is actually the question of the humankind is not where we are going after death, for we do not know what death is, but rather how does death feel.

Through the lens of Sigmund Freud, concepts in the play Macbeth take on an entirely deeper meaning. Because the characters in the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare repress their feelings of guilt, they display their true psychological states through the acts of their subconscious in order to eradicate their feelings of remorse and to show that guilt is within human nature. Within the play, Shakespeare uses hallucinations and sleepwalking to show that acts of the subconscious are manifestations of guilt. In Act 2. sc. 1 lines 50-51, the main character, Macbeth, states in a monologue, “A dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain” (Act 2.

The author includes multiple internal monologues throughout the story that reveal more about the characters and their intentions, such as “This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good, if ill, why hath it given me earnest of success commencing in a truth?” where Macbeth is referring to the predictions made by the witches and reasons to himself that they cannot be evil because of the reward they have given him, as he also begins to notice the emotions swelling up inside them and sees them as dark and horrible. He eventually begins to accept these emotions and wants to keep them secret, bringing mystery by revealing two conflicting emotions within his character. The use of internal character struggle manages to create a feeling of misfortune with many of the characters through guilt or grief leading toward emotional or literal downfall, such as “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this land.” (Shakespeare, Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 40-41) where Lady Macbeth is being forced to relive her being the cause of Duncan’s murder over and over in a state of sleepwalking. In this state, she experiences a vast amount of guilt and grief for what she did, which is misfortune for her because it soon leads up to her committing her own suicide, which