Gicela Nufio Philosophy Final Exam WEEK 5 This week’s discussions were very interesting. The discussion that was on my mind for a while was on the issue of why people seem to be poor. During class, two of my peers where talking about how they did not understand why people are poor. One of them explained that her parents, whom were immigrants, came to America and successfully on their own rose to the top and are now living a good life. I am glad to hear that through there own struggle they were able to overcome all the difficulties they faced and were able to provide their family a comfortable life. The thing here is that not all families who come to America in search for a better and more comfortable life are fortunate to find that. Not everyone has the same opportunities and opened doors as other do. Some of the people who come to live a good life is due to who they know, where they live, who they are and the skills that they have. Maybe her parents were luck and where at the right place at the right time, but not everyone has that type of luck. It mad me made to hear my peer say that she did not understand why people are poor. My parents came from a poor town and they ended up living a good life, but I do not criticize those that did not rise above. I believe that one must never judge, criticize another human being because you have not lived their life, faced their difficulties, or felt their struggle. It also boggles my mind that while one person works hard, long, demeaning hours, another person goes to a nice air conditioned office and types on a computer. I do not believe in the capitalist view that if someone works hard they will gain what they Gicela Nufio 2 deserve. This is not true. The truth is that it all depends on who you know, where you live, how much money you make and the social status you fall under. It is unfair that the people who are born into low-class family will most likely stay there. So when I hear people putting down the one’s that are in that situation it makes me very angry. WEEK 6 While reading, many questions came to mind such as: 1. Why do these individuals care so much about what others think about them? 2. Is it good that one depends on others opinions and company so much? Why couldn’t they just forget about the other people who were there within and block them out of their minds? As I read, these questions ran through my head constantly. I kept relating my life to what was going on in the story. It seemed to me that reading this story was like reading a soap opera because there seemed to be so much drama. There is a huge difference in who we are, who we think we are, and who others think we are. One must first realize that we should accept who we are because it is sometimes different from who we want to be or who we think we are. In this case we must not fool ourselves into believing something we are not. Other people will never know who we are because they are not inside your head or heart. Others will always see you different from who you really are according to what you reveal. Freud-The Wolf Man I. Psychoanalysis Unconscious Conscience II. The patient lived an unhealthy life. During his eighteenth year, he faced a gonorrheal infection. Gicela Nufio 3 During his early years, he dealt with a severe neurotic disturbance. He later on suffered form anxiety-hysteria which turned into an obsessional neurosis. III. Due to the patient’s situation, his attitude towards other people became negative. He was filled with a lot of apathy. He became unapproachable. For him, trust became an issue. IV. The patient’s childhood was very abnormal. His father was never home due to depression. His mother suffered from abdominal disorders. A nurse always looked him after. WEEK 7 Wolf Man: VI. The Obsessional Neurosis: I. After the patient’s mom decides to use the bible as a distraction from his disorder, the boy’s anxiety symptoms are replaced by obsessional symptoms. II. During the patient’s childhood, he falls into many epochs. The first period took place before and during the seduction he faced when he was three and a quarter(219). 1. Seduction by his sister. 2. He held a strong hostility towards women. The second was the period of the alteration in his character up to the anxiety dream when he was four years old(219). The third was the period of the animal phobia up to his initiation into religion when he was four and a half years old(219). Then onwards the period of the obsessional neurosis up to a time later than his tenth year(219). III. The boy’s sexual life developed in the direction of sadism and masochism(222). The boy had a masochistic attitude. 1. The boy tormented and ill-treated small animals(222). 2. He imagined himself beating horses(222). B In the boy’s unconscious he was homosexual. 3. In his sadism he maintained his ancient identification with his father(222). 4. His relation to his father might have proceeded from the sexual aim of being beaten by him(222). 5. This question arises when he asks if Jesus has a behind In his neurosis he was at the level of cannibalism(222). IV. The boy began to have mixed feelings on God. The boy began to fear God. 1. God had sacrificed his own son Jesus. Gicela Nufio 4 2. God asked Abraham to sacrifice his own son. He began to question God. 3. He began to have blasphemous ideas and the obsession of think of them Produce. a. “God-Shit” b. “God-swine”(224). 4. He had obsessional rituals. a. He needed to breath in the Holy Ghost under certain circumstances such as blasphemies. b. He needed to exhale when he saw beggars, or cripples, or ugly, old, or wretched-looking people(225). The patient was without the social interests which gives a content to life-ex: no desires to learn(229). Wolf Man: VII. Anal Eroticism and the Castration Complex (first 10 pages) I. Obsessional neursis is based on the basis of a sadistic-anal constituation. The two main factors are the patient’s sadism and its transformations(230).
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