Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Final Alice in Wonderland

Veronica Sierra
            In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll I found a relationship between Sigmund Freud’s Psychosexual Latency stage and Alice, the main character of the story. The Latency stage is one of the stages of Freud’s psychosexual development. Alice is in the latency stage of the psychosexual development, she has the age that many children were found to be during this stage and some descriptions of the latency stage identify Alice. What Alice is going through is also be considered as the Electra complex. The Electra complex occurs during the phallic stage which is before the latent stage; the latent stage gets affected by the Electra complex, that occurs to girls.
            Sigmund Freud developed the idea of psychosexual development in which consisted of five different stages the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent, and the genital. In relation to Freud’s latency stage description, Alice fits it completely according to her age and her actions. In Freud’s theory the latency stage begins during the phallic stage in which the child realizes that his/her wishes and longing of the parent of opposite sex cannot be fulfilled. During the phallic stage is when Electra complex occurs and can affect the development of girls during the latent stage. During the latent stage the children should start to develop from babies to reasonable human beings that can express more complex feelings. Anna Freud, who continued the development of psychosexual development from her father found that if the oedipal stage is delayed, or in the case of females the Electra complex, it would create problems during the latency stage. Problems that can arouse are having difficulties adapting to a group, lack of interest and school phobias. Erik Erikson, also a psychologist, said that in the latency phase is when many suffered competence and inferiority. Children compare their worth to others and recognize their differences and abilities which make them “inferior” to others in their eyes. He also believed that during this stage the children grew eager to learn new skills.           
            Alice fits the descriptions of being in the latency stage because she is seven years old and because of the book description of her actions. “I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth.” She seems to be having a hard time realizing what is happening in real life and what is occurring in her fantasy world. Like in this quote as a reader we realize that it’s clearly impossible to fall through the air in to space. Alice seems to believe that everything is happening to her in real life when it’s more than clear that many things occurring to her are impossible to happen in real life.
 According to Erikson, in this stage children are always eager to learn new skills and Alice is always questioning and willing to learn everything that is going on around her. “Why did you call him Tortoise, if he isn’t one.” Alice is also always comparing herself to others and asking questions about anything that she doesn’t completely understand.
            Electra complex was one of the theories developed by Carl Gustav Jang in which he said that every little girl goes through this even though the majority doesn’t remember. In Electra complex all the little girls envy their mothers because of their mother’s possession over the father. A theory that was developed by Anna Freud, she said that if the girls don’t grow out of it on time it could bring them complications in later stages, such as in the latent stage. Alice could have not grown out of this stage on time which brings her complications to belong in a group or fit well in society. Which brings questions to her mind like, “Who in the world am I?”, Alice is confused as to who she is. Since Alice isn’t able to fit in a group she decides to create another society in her mind but she still finds it complicated to fit in as well. There’s a part in the story in which she sees a king and queen and she describes the queen as if she was the one with all authority and not the king this shows that Alice’s mother had more control over her father and she wasn’t able to fulfill her desire for her father. “My dear! I wish you have this cat removed!” said the king to the queen. The relationship between the king and queen could remind Alice of the relationship between her parents in which her mother has the control in where she can’t have interference.
            Alice fits very well in the latency stage of the psychosexual development. Electra complex seems to have been delayed and still exists in her memory which makes her act like she does and creates a whole new imaginary world to get away from her “reality”. Her form of inferiority is expressed when she drinks the potion and shrinks and stays small most of the story. Her sexual desires are all the fantasies that she is going through which she knows she wouldn’t be able to go through or see in real life.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Self-Revision for Alice Adventure's in Wonderland

1. The first paragraph introduces the topic and the whole concept of what the essay is going to be about. Yes, the first sentence is relevant but, not an attention grabber.
2. " In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll I found a relationship between Sigmund Freud's Psychosexual Latency stage and Alice, the main character of the story." I believe that it's not the most intresting sentence but it goes straight to say what the essay is going to be about in a very clear manner.
3. No, I dont believe I made the sub points as clear as of what the whole essay is going to be about. I just gave a brief explanation of the main point.
4. I found that I don't use a diversity of words and have a lot of repetition. I found that I don't proofread my work enough and dthere are a lot of the same words being used more than once in a sentence which makes the sentence difficult to read and understand clearly.
5. I clearly state whose ideas and information I'm using but i don't exactly quote them.
6. The greatest strength of this paper is that is a strong thesis to argue.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Alice In Wonderland 1st draft

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll I found a relationship between Sigmund Freud’s Psychosexual Latency stage and Alice the main character of the story. The Latency stage is one of the stages of Freud’s psychosexual development. Alice seems to be in the latency stage of the psychosexual development she has the age that many children were found were in this stage, some descriptions of the latency stage identify Alice. What Alice is going through can also be seen as Electra complex. The Electra complex occurs during the phallic stage which is before the latent stage, the latent stage gets effected by the Electra complex that occurs to girls.
            Sigmund Freud developed the idea of psychosexual development in which consisted of five different stages the oral, the anal, the phallic, the latent, and the genital. According to Feud Alice would be in the latency stage according to her age and because of what she is going through. In Freud’s theory the latency stage begins during the phallic stage in which the child realizes that their wish and longing to the parent of opposite sex cannot be fulfilled. During the phallic stage is when Electra complex occurs and can effect the development of girls during the latent stage. During the latent stage the children start to develop from babies to reasonable human beings that can express more complex feelings. Anna Freud who continued the development of psychosexual development from her father found that If the Oepidal stage is delayed, or in the case of females the Electra complex, it would create problems during the latency stage. Problems that can arouse are having problems to adapting to a group, lack of interest and school phobias. Erik Erikson also a psychologist, said that in the latency phase was when many suffered competence and inferiority. Children compare their worth to others and recognize their differences and abilities which makes them “inferior” to others in their eyes. He also believed that during this stage the children grew eager to learn new skills.           
            Alice fits the descriptions of being in the latency stage because she is seven years old and according to how the book is describing her and her actions she seems to be having a hard time realizing what is happening in real life and what is happening in her fantasy world. Alice seems to believe that everything is happening to her in real life when it’s more than clear that many things occurring to her are impossible to happen I real life. According to Erikson in this stage there are always eager to learn new skills and Alice is always questioning everything that is going on around her and expecting to learn everything that is going on around her. Alice is also always comparing herself others.  When Alice takes the potion or eats the cake she either grows or shrinks can be a simile of her feeling superior or inferior at given times. Many of Freud’s theories had something to do with sex.
            Electra complex was one of the theories developed by Carl Gustav Jang in which he said that every little girl goes through this even though they don’t remember. In Electra Complex all the little girls envy their mothers because of their mothers possession over the father. Alice could have not grown out of this stage on time which brings her complications to belong in a group or fit well in society. Since Alice isn’t  able to fit in a group she decides to create another society in her mind but she still finds it complicated to fit in as well. There’s a part in the story in which she sees a king and queen and she describes the queen as if she was the one with all authority and not the king, this shows that Alice’s mother has more control over her father and she wasn’t able to fulfill her desire for her father.
            Alice fits very well in the latency stage of the psychosexual development. Electra complex seems to have been delayed and is still in her memory which makes her act like she does and create a whole new imaginary world. Her form of inferiority is expressed when she eats the cake and shrinks herself, she stays small for the most of the story. Her sexual desires are all the fantasies that she is going through which she knows she wouldn’t be able to see or go through in real life.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Proposal of ALice in Wonderland connection to psychology

As of right now I feel very undecided what topic I want to choose to connect between Alice in Wonderland and Psychology. What I am taking in to cosideration is the idea of Freud's Psychosexual latency stage and how it could relate to Alice. My second choice is perception or even the idea of wish fulfillment and how everything she is going through can actually be what she really desires would happen in her real life. I still have more thinking to do .

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Alice In Wonderland Chapters 1&2

So far in Alice in Wonderland she sees a rabbit with pink eyes which she doesn't find abnormal but as she goes back to remember she realizes that the rabbit had a waist-coat pocket with a watch. I believe that it's kind of strange but yet it's a very interesting story. I have heard of the story before but never saw the movie or read the book. I like the story because it has me entertained in figuring out if she really is going through this or if she is dreaming about it. I found it funny when she was talking about her cat to the mouse when they were in the puddle drowning.

Monday, March 14, 2011

About Me

My name is Veronica Sierra, I'm the first of my family to go to college. I have an older brother which makes me the youngest.I am 18 yrs old. I was born and raised in Queens, New York. I have always been not perfect but good student. I am presently attending Laguardia Community College, I'm majoring in Liberal Arts because I'm still undecided of what exactly it is that I want. I'm debating among three possible careers,criminal justice,psychology,and bussiness management and administration. I'm interested in criminal justice because I have always enjoyed the fact of figuring out the crime reasons. Psychology has become more of a recent interest to me because I have found interest to find out what goes on in the human brain. Psychology has some type of connection to criminal justice because to find out the reason of why a person commited a crime there has to be some figuring out of what is happening in the mind. Bussiness management and administration has also been of my interest because I have always wanted to have my own bussiness and thought that it would be a great career. As of now I believe that im inclining more towards psychology but I still have some time to make a final decision. The Imagination and Reality cluster will help me expand my creativity and think outside the box. I'm very in to usic and feel that i would be incomplete if i didn't have music. My favorite type of music is rap, house and spanish music. I also enjoy watching movies, my favorite type of movies are action movies that involve a lot of killing and blood, and ofcourse comedy movies. I love to party and spend time with my family and friend. In other words I love to have fun and enjoy my time to the fullest.