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Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights has been interpreted in terms of the true self's struggle to break through the false self, and the social overlay that makes the false self socially acceptable. [46] Sylvia Plath's poetry has been interpreted in terms of the conflict of the true self and the false self. [47]
Similarly, many of the terms used in psycholexical studies are too ambiguous to be useful in a psychological context. [44] The lexical hypothesis relies on terms that were not developed by experts. [37] As such, any models developed with the lexical hypothesis represent lay perceptions rather than expert psychological knowledge. [43]
Psychohistory is a social science that analyzes human behavior by combining psychology, history, and other social sciences, while also being a amalgam of psychology, history, and related social sciences and the humanities. [1] Its proponents claim to examine the "why" of history, especially the difference between stated intention and actual ...
Interior of a room at the Barbizon hotel (1942). Esther Greenwood, the protagonist of the story, is an ambitious English major from Boston.Having won a summer job as a "guest editor" for Ladies' Day magazine, she lives at the Barbizon hotel [4] (referred to in the novel as the "Amazon" hotel) in New York City, along with the other young women who were selected as guest editors.
Also eon. age Age of Discovery Also called the Age of Exploration. The time period between approximately the late 15th century and the 17th century during which seafarers from various European polities traveled to, explored, and charted regions across the globe which had previously been unknown or unfamiliar to Europeans and, more broadly, during which previously isolated human populations ...
This glossary covers terms found in the psychiatric literature; the word origins are primarily Greek, but there are also Latin, French, German, and English terms. Many of these terms refer to expressions dating from the early days of psychiatry in Europe; some are deprecated, and thus are of historic interest.
A meaning explains the occurrence of a particular word in the sense that if there had been a different meaning to be expressed, a different word would probably have appeared. Meaning has certain advantages over ideas because they have the possibility to be located outside the skin, and thus, according to Skinner, meanings can be observed directly.