Jessica Marie

Dear edublogs, if only you were facebook, i’d love you more.

So for my essay, the theme i’ve decided to look at is the appearence vs. reality aspect. See, the character’s images are completely different from their character profiles; who they actually are.

Which to focus on!!!
Neuromancer is just soooo cool!
but we really need to get Othello done.
We’re thinking of acting out the seen where Iago plants Othello’s hankerchief  on Cassio, to make Othello think Desdemona was cheating on him. This is where the drama really begins in the play; very important scene.

HA! The site I found last semester; thinkfree.com that i found off Mr.Murray’s delicious.com site, FINALLY came in handy! Because as we all know, Word updated itself AGAIN disabling the ability to view files at home unless you download and install some NEW compatibility pack, gah! So aggravating! ……………………. HOWEVER, I ended up downloading the pack, so now, the site is useless again. BUT at least it comforted me for an hour? THAT MEANS SOMETHING!

http://member.thinkfree.com/member/goLandingPage.action

so, sidetracked from doing my history project on the inspiration program, i’ve decided to blog on what i think of the criticism essay test thingy.

COME ON MAN!.. i understand though, i understand… sigh…..

good choice in movie though! The Princess Bride is AWESOME!

Very humorous, with action and romance, it’s a triple threat yo!

So, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is  THE most BORING piece of literature I’ve tried to read. There’s just WAY to much verisimilitude, and SOMEWHERE in it, the story is being told?! it’s not as if you can skip a few paragraphs and it’s done for awhile, and you can go on with the story, the entire read is in fact entwined with this descriptive writing, NONSENSE I SAY!… it’s annoying, I can’t take it, so I’m switching! I began reading ‘The Monk’ by M.G. Lewis and am content.

So i’ve finished reading The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, and i loved it! Though it brought aggravation with Manfred wanting Isabella  as his wife; a young girl who doesn’t want to marry him and who’s father is M.I.A., and separating himself from Hippolita; his current wife who loves him dearly, ALL because she’s hasn’t been able to provide Manfred with any sons. GAH, and too think he wants to ——— Isabella to get sons! It’s disgusting!!

NOTE: This whole separating and remarrying  for sons thing,  also reminds me of King Henry VIII who separated many wives due to their impotence in bearing him with sons.

http://www.origami-club.com/en/index.html

I LOVE THIS!….origami is so cool! and reflects creativity amongst the simple use of a simple square piece of paper. ahhh simplicity!

So a quick look at some of Sigmund Freud theories and ideas linked with Colt, Mario, and I’s Literay Criticism Project; Psychoanalytic.

Note: AGGRIVATED THAT ANOTHER GROUP IS ALSO DOING OUR TOPIC!!!!

Signmund Freud:

psychotherapies, second only to Scientology as the champion purveyor of false and misleading claims about the mind, mental health, and mental illness. For example, in psychoanalysis schizophrenia and depression are not brain disorders, but narcissistic disorders. Autism and other brain disorders are not brain problems but mothering problems. These illnesses do not require pharmacological or behavioral treatment. They require only “talk” therapy. Similar positions are taken for anorexia nervosa and Tourette’s syndrome
Freud thought he understood the nature of schizophrenia. It is not a brain disorder, but a disturbance in the unconscious caused by unresolved feelings of homosexuality.

site: http://www.skepdic.com/psychoan.html

Inferiority Complex:

An inferiority complex, in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, is a feeling that one is inferior to others in some way.
. It is often subconscious, and is thought to drive afflicted individuals to overcompensate, resulting either in spectacular achievement or extreme schizotypal behavior, or both. Unlike a normal feeling of inferiority, which can act as an incentive for achievement (or promote discouragement), an inferiority complex is

site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferiority_complex

Tripartite Theory

Sigmund Freud introduced what would later come to be called the “structural theory” of psychoanalysis in his 1923 book, The Ego and the Id. The structural theory divides the mind into three agencies or “structures:” The “id,” the “ego,” and the “superego.” The unconscious id consists of humanity’s most primitive desires to satisfy its biological needs ‘pleasure’. The superego (also unconscious) contains the socially-induced conscious and counteracts the id with moral and ethical prohibitions. The largely conscious ego functions as mediator between the two.

site: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ego,_superego,_and_id

Freud’s Five Psychosexual Stages of Development

Oral: Developmentally the first of Freud’s psychosexual stages. During this stage the id seeks gratification through pleasuring the oral erogenous zone, and revolves around eating and sucking.

Anal: The anal stage begins at 2-3 years of age, during which the id derives pleasure through waste elimination. Freud viewed this stage as significant because it marks a child’s first attempt to control a biological impulse in order to meet the demands of society.

Phallic: Beginning at 4-5 years of age, it is in this stage that Freud’s famous Oedipus and Electra complexes emerge. These complexes are named after characters of Greek myth whose narratives share common traits. Male children develop a sexual desire for their mother, view their father as a rival, and fear that he will castrate them as a result — the so called Oedipus complex. Female children, on the other hand, develop penis envy (the Electra Complex). They blame their mothers for their lack of penis, and desire to compensate for this by giving birth to their father’s children. The phallic conflicts are resolved by method of repression. Through repressing the child learns to identify with its same-sex parent, allowing for both the vicarious possession of the opposite-sex parent and the development of the superego.

Latency: The latency stage begins at age six. Children are sexually latent during this stage.

Genital: The reappearance of sexuality during adolescence marks the beginning of the genital stage, which lasts for the rest of the person’s life. In this final stage, sexual urges are outlet directly into sexual relationships.

site: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud#Freud.27s_Tripartite_Theory_of_Personality

Freud’s Psychoanalytic Ego Defence Mechanisms

Freud believed that anxiety occurs when impulses emanating from the id threaten to overpower the ego. The ego can respond to this threat by using coping mechanisms that are in line with reality. However, if these attempts to cope realistically fail, the ego may resort one or more of the following eight defense mechanisms:

- Denial
- Displacement
- Intellectualization
- Projection
- Repression
- Rationalization

Reaction Formation involves the repression of the anxiety-arousing impulse, whose energy is then diverted into the exaggerated acting out of the opposite behaviour.
Example: A marriage partner represses deep feelings of discontent with their spouse, and instead becomes clingy and affectionate.

site: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud#Freud.27s_Tripartite_Theory_of_Personality
Sublimation

occurs when the anxiety-arousing impulse is released in an altered, socially acceptable form.
Example: A person with violent impulses becomes a nightclub bouncer, acting on those impulses as required by the job.

site: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud#Freud.27s_Tripartite_Theory_of_Personality

So for ETS Alicia and I are doing Emerson as our poet! I’m SO excited!!!!

http://www.transcendentalists.com/emerson_poems.htm