Our Natural State of Being

Freud's psychoanalysis of humans are the principles of the Id, Ego, and the Superego. Each one of these function differently considering their ideal settings in the human body. The Id is the natural factor in humans; it is their unconcious needs whether it be food, shelter, or sex. It is basically what we want, want, want; our basic needs and feelings. Ego is more of the rational part of the mind constantly reminding us that we cannnot always get what we want. The ego pretty much brings us back to reality when we are in "fantasy-land." The superego is more of the moral part of the mind helping us to think of our societal values and it stores and enforces rules in our brain.

My Contribution to My Group

My six group members display enthusiasm, interest, and provide great ideas to make our presentation a hopeful success. Each one of us has taken a part into making a strong effort of coming up with creative ideas to share within each other and then put it together to construct a strong discussion. My personal effort is to come up with a scenario. It would have to pertain to Freud's pleasure principle but it also has to be entertaining at the same time. It is pretty challenging to think of a really good technique to approach Freud's idea "The tie of affection which binds the child as a rule to the parent of the opposite sex"(Freud 435). I am currently in the process of displaying to my group my proposal to create a scenario. Every one of us has contributed in some way or another to show their attempt of trying to make a good and solid presentation. As a group we met at the Fruedian Sip in front of Jerome Richfield Hall to discuss our ideas and share our interests of how we may incorporate it into Freud's theories. This meeting helped us to organize our thoughts and converse with each other of how we should perform it on our presentation day. Every one took part into making psychoanalysis a great discussion and hopefully our presentation/discussion in class will be a success.

Psychoanalysis of Lala

My best friend is perhaps the most down to earth person I have ever met. Her entire personality is simply based upon laughter and she always looks at things from a positive perspective. I shall call her Lala. Lala's personality undertakes uniqueness. She is beautiful inside and out and she makes me laugh at every point in life that is humanly possible. Her actions are only to help others which makes her selfless juxtaposing her position on her unconscious state of mind. When I state this I very well mean that Lala's technique of taking an exam is only beneficial to her. Because she is so well into the exam, she has undertaken the art of sniffling every five seconds not knowing she has undertaken such a position while the others around her are simply trying to concentrate upon their conscious mind of taking the test. Her sniffling and deep breathing during an exam are perhaps the most interesting phase of her personality. Of course, Lala's unconscious mind has overtaken her not realizing what she is doing in a class during an exam. So, to resolve the issue, I kick her attempting to awaken her frozen subconscious. Lala then awakens from her phase and apologizes for her unconscious, inadvertent behavior.

Lala's behavior is unconscious and it defines her unconscious behavior while taking a test in class. This is her usual way of taking an exam but it is not done on purpose but her unconscious mind has taken over and this stifles her to become aware of her unpremediated behavior.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

Two Identites in One

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are very well known for playing the role of Michelle Tanner on "Full House" since they were only nine months old until the age of five or six. Their career in acting began since infancy and they continued with it through many television series along with filming movies and making commercials and being interviewd. Mary-Kate and Ashley duked a very high-stream career making the list of the eleventh richest women in entertainment and they had an estimated net worth of $100 million. Perhaps their talent in acting bumped them into a world of media. These two perhaps did pursue a career of popularity, however, media did overtake their privacy along with their adolescent years to grow up like two normal girls. In 2004 Mary-Kate checked in to rehab because she had an eating disorder called anorexia and Ashley was accused of doing drugs while she informed the media that she never did drugs and she does not use them or sell them. It was perhaps the beginning of a very rough road for Mary-Kate along with her sister Ashley. As they pursued their goal of becoming famous and enjoying a life of pampering, media fully took advantage of them and their personal lives.
The position that I am taking on this is that the system of signs according to my research criterion is that the media went against Mary-Kate and Ashley because of how rich and famous they became. The girl's lives had become a source of public attention and their life seemed "hazardous" because of the certain kind of medium people had approached them with. Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are the labels of popularity in the entertainment business and how rich they are which juxtaposes with their talent of becoming fashion designers later in their careers. Most people tend to see them as cocky and stuck up even though there is a lot more to them than that. I may sound stupid writing this but cockiness does not define who they are fully. Every time I hear about them I think of talented, stylish, sophisticated,and perhaps cocky. Of course, the celebrity world does invenst more in cockiness than it does in actual talent to be cocky in the first place but that is just my opinion.

Fince, Dan."The Biography Channel-Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Biography." Grantway, Texas.2004.

Starry Night

Starry Night

Starry Night makes me think of the time I spent a night under the stars. That hint of fresh air and crispiness of the night perhaps makes everything seem clean and refreshing. Its the kind of experience where imagination takes place and so you look up and see the sky like you've seldom seen it before. It is a feeling of happiness, perhaps even sadness. Something that one experiences may be expressed in different ways.
Vincent Van Gogh at the time was in an asylum when he painted Starry Night. Van Gogh's painting expresses his deep thoughts and emotions while emphasizing the colors he painted with; yellow, blue, and dark velvet to almost black. The painting overlooks a small village at nighttime emphasizing the tall black tree which happens to be the first noticeable object in the painting. The night sky is painted very wavy and swervy using elongated brush strokes while the rest of the picture happens to be in the background; being not as important as the rest of it. The stars are painted yellow twirling in the night sky scattered around the moon and the moon is the deepest yellow of all, perhaps. The village right beneath the night sky probably represents the small fraction of power in the world because it is painted in dark colors mostly giving way to the starry sky overall. Van Gogh's painting is a mixture of the loss of hope or the gain of happiness. It is the colors that portray the painting and bestow upon the onlooker what is Van Gogh perhaps feeling in this one.

The True Sublime Analysis #1

Longinus describes the sublime as something beyond human sense. It is an illusion that draws the reader to different levels of thinking. It is something that overcomes every effort of intelligence and thought to depict it.
The true sublime gives an example that if an intelligent man “read a passage several times and it does not touch his spirit…then it cannot be an example of true sublimity”(120). Longinus definitely conveys the true sublime with this example in my opinion because the mere thought of a man not sensing the true and rational being of a passage or of a poem does not understand the effect of it at all. The intellectual man who has written the passage or even written poetry writes in prose, therefore, reflecting upon every person’s diverse style of writing. Each man has the gift of writing in various styles and when it is presented in front of others true sublimity should be presented by way of understanding the true meaning of the piece of writing whether it may be poetry, literature, etc. Poetry is a style of writing that portrays the art of sublimity. I think that poetry is a true way of discovering the sublime because inspiration and motivation undertake it. It is the way writers express their feelings, judgments, and stance on certain aspects in their life. When it is unappreciated it is typically done by those who have no resilience to poetry whatsoever. It does not effect their soul or their mind. Longinus explains that the true sublime is poetry. “The grand style in poetry and literature,…whether certain passages do not simply give an impression of grandeur by means of much adornment…we are filled with proud exaltation and joy, as though we had ourselves produced what we had heard”(120). The joyous feeling we endure after experiencing the divine intellect of the producer of the piece in many cases definitely is blissful.
In this video Alicia Keyes expresses her deepest feelings through poetry. Her intense expression of words are so dramatically put together that the audience relates themselves in her character’s position, therefore, appreciating her performance. This video defines the art of poetry, the true sublime

"Ion"

Plato’s take on the human genius only falls short of my opinion about it. His
theory is that humans are only geniuses because they are “possessed” by something.
He mentions poetry in “Ion” that “All good poets utter all those fine poems of theirs not
through skill, but when inspired and possessed”(Ion, 5). Personally, it bothers me to
think that our past-on geniuses may have been spiritually taken over my something out
of the blue and, therefore, would create or have a “genius” idea about something.
Plato’s argument really sounds unrealistic because not everyone of us are gifted to be as
smart as like Beethoven, for example. However, each one of us does have some type of
knowledge about certain things that others don’t, furthermore, that “genius” that we have
in us does not mean that we are possessed by some kind of power. The only part that I
agree with Plato is when he mentions the inspirational reinforcement of genius.
Inspiration is always an emphasis to me when hearing about a great idea or plan, etc. It
is definitely possible to be inspired by something and come up with a “genius” idea
afterwards