The essay below discusses the psychoanalytic and humanist perspectives. The essay will look at the key concepts, the major causal factors responsible for the perspectives and the methods of discovery used to the explore behaviours. The psychoanalytic theory explains personality development and personality growth. It also explained psychological disorders and unconscious motives and ways in which the people deal with their sexual urges. (Weiten, 1995, pg 473). Freud claims that sexual urge is crucial
complicated. The essence of humanity ‘humanism’ is lost in the name of partition, nation and borders. Ghosh attempts a revival for humanism in his The Shadow Lines. The novel portrays the futility of war, riots, violence and partition and also re-searches the lost humanism that has been thrown into the recesses of modern busy life. This paper attempts to prove that the concept of borders and boundaries are illusions. These illusionary lines blur human sight and shrouds humanism in the name of nation and patriotism
Human nature itself includes both selfishness and cruelty on the one hand and compassion and fellow feeling on the other. But humanism will help to subdue the cruel nature and focus only on what is just. Anis presented such a description of an old woman who had been cruelly treated by a group of Pathan captors who wanted to sell her for Rs 20. Three poor farmers somehow managed
A part of Indian concept of humanism has grown with land because the life of common people in India is mostly based on agriculture. Hari has a strong humanistic bond with their landed property left by his father. He tries his level best to protect those lands. He feels a heart’s content to look at the crops yielded by those lands. The writer beautifully expressed the relation between Hari and his lands, “To Hari, it had always been a matter of prestige rather than money, of family pride; his was
The concept of God the Universe disagrees with Secular Humanism on specific issues: 1. Regarding: "Secular humanism is nonreligious, espousing no belief in a realm or beings imagined to transcend ordinary experience." I am very religious and strongly believe that God is the Universe. And I pray to it quite often in gratitude for the wonderful things that I have already received, and to ask for more. 2. Regarding: "Naturalism asserts that supernatural entities like God do not exist." To me God
Antagonistic to determinism is the concept of free will. Will may be defined as “the ability to control one’s thoughts and actions in order to achieve what one wants to do.” It is the capacity to choose from two or more alternatives of a physical or mental action. When such will is neither controlled by external and internal sources or forces, it is called the Free Will. Free will is sometimes nothing but ‘the power to control your own decision without being controlled by God or fate.’ Encyclopedia
François Rabelais is a multi-dimensional person such as humanist writer, priest, philosopher and doctor who lived in renaissance era. He had education in a Franciscan monastery and became a priest. During his education he learnt Greek and Latin. He reflects the features of renaissance. He had different researches about science, law, and philology. His studies were almost always criticized by Franciscan monastery; therefore, he left from Franciscan monastery to Benedictine. After a while, he entered
what it was to be human, so the new way of thinking based on the classics was called humanism. Humanism is an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to humans rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.” (Langer). In simpler terms humanism is a Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from
Why the Renaissance was Important “In Discussion: The Renaissance” “What a piece of work is a man! . . . in form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel.” –William Shakespeare, from Hamlet. William Shakespeare was a famous writer during the Renaissance. Edmund Spencer, Sir Philip Spencer Sidney, and Shakespeare wrote famous sonnets. Walter Pater stated in his book, “Originally championed by nineteenth-century French aesthetes, this notion of art as an end in itself helped
Mark Twain’s marriage with Olivia Langdon in 1870 made him to move to Buffalo, New York and then later he migrated to Hartford, Connecticut. Though he had four children namely Langdon, Susy, Clara, and Jean, Langdon died in 1872. From 1872 to 1880 he gave many lectures in the Unites States as well as in England and the number of his audience gradually increased. They were attracted by his sense of humor and his ideas were strongly put forth without any hesitation. His style and impromptu speech