Anna Freud Essays

  • Anna Freud: The Early Life And Biography Of Anna Freud

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    Anna Freud was born December 3, 1895 in Vienna Austria, and died October 9, 1982 in London, England. She was the last child of six to Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. Anna was a psychologist of the 20th century. She is considered the co-founder of psychoanalytic child psychology alone with Melanie Klein. As her father put it, child psychology “had received a powerful impetus through the work of Frau Melanie Klein and of my daughter, Anna Freud”. Anna did her work emphasized the importance of

  • Anna Freud: A True Child Advocate

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    applied to the life and work of Anna Freud. Many accounts of Anna Freud’s childhood describe a pastoral childhood in the home of the founder of modern psychoanalysis. According to Young-Bruehl, (1994) Anna Freud was one of six children born to Sigmund and Martha Freud. Young-Bruehl, (1994) Anna was said to have had moderate difficulties as a child in her early school years, until she entered private school. (Edgcumbe, 2000) In the summer of 1915, Anna Freud established personal success as she

  • Anna And Sigmund Freud: Defense Mechanisms: Ending Anxiety

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    first discovered by Sigmund Freud as part of his psychoanalytic theory, and further developed by his daughter, Anna Freud. They discovered unconscious mechanisms, which are part of the mind that contains repressed anxieties, and they are able to protect an individual from psychological pain or anxiety. While such mechanisms may be helpful in the short term they can easily become a substitute for addressing the underlying cause and lead to additional problems. Anna Freud continued her work on defense

  • Erik Erikson: The History, Development, and Significance of His Work

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    Erik Erikson: The History, Development, and Significance of His Work Erik Erikson has had a tremendous life and has left an amazing legacy. He was an influential and pioneering psychologist, psychoanalyst, and author whose development of his psychosocial stages are immeasurable to the study of personalities. Erikson came from a somewhat troubled past, not so much economically, but psychologically. Erikson was born on June 15, 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany to his mother Karla Abrahamsen (Friedman,

  • Erik Erikson’s Ego Theory vs. Bandura’s Social Learning Theory

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    Sigmund Freud, and Albert Bandura. Sigmund Freud emphasized the influence of the id, believing that the ego acts only out of borrowed energy and acts best as a commander. Sigmund Freud perceived aggression as a universal human behavior. According to Freud, we, humans are unaware of its presence because we are suppressed by the superego. In Erikson’s theory, he explains how the ego is the part of the mind that gives coherence to experiences, conscious or unconscious. Erikson agreed with Freud that the

  • Anna Freud: A Forgotten Pioneer in Psychology

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    such as Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, and John B. Watson. Haplessly, the consequential involvement of women therapist were often disregarded in psychology textbooks. There were many women in psychology, however, who made critical contributions and availed shape the development of the field of psychology. (Very Well, 2017). One of today’s most influential psychologists that I’m writing about is Anna Freud, born in Vienna on December 3, 1895 the youngest six children, Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays

  • Phychoanalysis Theory: The Major Life Development Of Erikson's Theory

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    Erik Erikson was the man who originated the term “Identity crisis”. Erikson thought that his work was an extension of Freud’s and that if Freud had been given the time, then he would have come up with the same psychoanalysis theories that Erikson did. The major life developments of Erik Erikson that influenced his personality include things such as not having his father around from birth and thinking that his mother’s husband was his biological father and then finding out that the man was not his

  • Anna Livia Plurabelle: The Lost Truth of Feminine Subjectivity

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    Anna Livia Plurabelle: The Lost Truth of Feminine Subjectivity The oppressed, repressed, and impressed subjectivity of feminism finds a new opportunity to assert its true self against the stultifying atmosphere of modernism and identity-oriented crisis of postmodern ambience by appealing to the unique characterization of Anna Livia Plurabelle which frequently oscillates phallocentrism and proves the me'connaissance of male selfism and female-otherness to establish a new doctrine based on the

  • The Psychoanalytic Theory Of Play For Young Children

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    playing (Heidman & Hewitt, 2010; Freud, 1961). From the psychoanalytic perspective, play has a cathartic effect for children as it can assist children to cope with adverse feelings (Wolfberg, 2009, p. 32). Therefore, play is regarded as a therapeutic method to deal with the emotional problems (Wolfberg, 2009, p. 32). Moreover, this theory is of the view that play is an avenue to connect children’s past, current and future inner life (Willians, 2009, p. 575). Sigmund Freud was the pioneer who made a considerable

  • Anna’s Story: Neglect of The Innocent

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    Innocent {Anna turned three years old on November 1st, 2002. We still have gotten no word from Nicole, but my mother seems to think that she is no longer in the state of Tennessee. - S.M, December 2002} Fun, wild, and party loving…this all comes to mind when I think of my aunt Nicole. I can’t remember her ever being very responsible, but yet she was my favorite out of my mothers three other sisters. Three years ago, this party girl had a beautiful baby who she named Anna Michelle. Nicole

  • Gender Analysis of Anna and the King

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    Gender Analysis of Anna and the King If you are not the lead elephant, the scenery never changes. (Moonshee, Anna’s servant) One of the main issues in “Anna and the King” is the differences between men and women. What is less obvious is that those differences are of two types: the existing inequality of the social status of men and women, and the ways in which men and women try to deal with (end or prolong) this inequality. First of all, let us observe the structure of the Thai society

  • Compare And Contrast Essay On Anna Ripley

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    My Friend, Anna Ripley Indefatigable is the only the word I can think of to describe my best friend and sister, Anna Ripley. Growing up on a dirt road in the woods, with your nearest neighbors being cousins you develop a pretty strong sense of the importance of family. One year me and my sister decided to go for a walk, three hours later it so happened we ended up in Parrsboro; 5 minutes away from buying ice cream because it was a scorching temperature of 30 degrees Celsius. We didn’t walk back home

  • Anna Julia Cooper

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    Anna Julia Cooper "Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole . . . race enters with me'" The life of Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) affords rich opportunities for studying the developments in African-American and Ameri can life during the century following emancipation. Like W.E.B. DuBois, Cooper's life is framed by especially momentous years in U

  • Anna Deveare Smith's Fires in the Mirror

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    Anna Deveare Smith's Fires in the Mirror The language in Fires in the Mirror, by Anna Deveare Smith, is a microcosm for the way in which language creates reality in every community. In Fires in the Mirror, people from different communities in Crown Heights are interviewed on various subjects after the riot that erupted in 1991 between Jewish and Black groups, and in these interviews it is obvious that specific communities develop unique styles of language in order to unite all the members

  • Patricia MacLachlan’s Sarah Plain and Tall - Comparing Book and Movie

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    scene between Anna and Caleb that appears in the book. However, the movie, Sarah Plain and Tall has a variety of differences from Patricia MacLachlan’s children’s novel Sarah Plain and Tall. Essentially the movie had to go to a deeper level in order to attract adults to the story. Every event that is in the book happens in the movie. However, the movie adds scenes and complicates the relationships between the characters. The complication between characters is especially shown in Anna and Sarah’s

  • Changing My Name

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    pronounce; it would give people a challenge. I think it’s great to have a long first name because you can create so many nicknames from it, for example the name Annabelle. If you are not satisfied with this name you can have people call you An, Anna, Belle, Elly, or even A.B.! The choices seem to be endless with long first names. This is why I chose the name Lucrecia. It is my mother’s name as well as her mother’s name. They have each given their own meaning to the name, but unfortunately when

  • Analysis of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City Series

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    Visitor p.309 Ch. 97. Three Men at the Tubs p.312 Ch. 98. Cruising at The Stud p.315 Ch. 99. She is Woman, Hear Her Roar p.318 Ch. 100. The Doctor is In p.321 Ch. 101. Not Even a Mouse p.324 Ch. 102. Enigma at the Twinkie Factory p.327 Ch. 103. Anna Crumbles p.330 Ch. 104. The Baker's Wife p.334 Ch. 105. Old Flames p.337 Ch. 106. A Lovers' Farewell p.340 Ch. 107. Edgar on the Brink p.343 Ch. 108. Breaking and Entering p.347 Ch. 109. At the Grove p.350 Ch. 110. Art for Art's Sake p.353

  • Anna Kingsley

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    Anna Kingsley, a woman of strength and determination overcame many odds not expected of an African American slave. She married a slave owner, owned land, and was once a slave herself. She was well known in a free black community she helped establish. Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley was the wife of plantation owner Zephaniah Kingsley. She was the daughter of a man of high status. Her father’s sides were descendants of the well know Njaajan Njaay, the creators of the Jolof Empire. Her father was killed

  • Comparing Women in Anna Akhmatova’s Lot’s Wife, Crucifixion, and Rachel

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    Powerful Women in Anna Akhmatova’s Lot’s Wife, Crucifixion, and Rachel “But Lot's wife looked back behind him, and she became a pillar of salt” (New Geneva Study Bible, Gen. 19. 26). “Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary (the mother of James and Joseph), and Zebedee's wife, the mother of James and John” (Matt. 27:56). “Jacob went over to the well and rolled away the stone and watered his uncle's flock. Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and tears came to his eyes…But when Jacob woke up in the morning

  • The Black and White World of Atwood's Surfacing

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    see the possibility of life as more than a binary reality. Anna plays the role of the classic submissive female married to David's classic chauvinist male. "Wanting to remain attractive to her husband, Anna attempts to conform to the eroticized and commodified images of women promulgated in the mass culture" (Bouson 44). Although the novel is set during the 1970"s, the decade of one of the great feminist movements in our history, Anna remains a woman who maintains herself for her husbands benefit