3). Pick
one concept or idea from this week's assigned reading and discuss it.
Be sure to relate the concept/idea to your personally by using examples
from your life and/or experiences
One topic
that I found really interesting this week was the topic of Revenge. It
is something that some people really have a desire to partake in and
some people just don’t. Personally, I never really had any desire
at all to participate or seek revenge on anyone. It is something that I
just never really thought was worth my time. BUT I know tons of other
people enjoy the aspect of getting revenge. One of the girls I coach for
cheer came to practice not too long ago with
a crazy story of fun teenage revenge. I guess one of the boys from
school came and set fireworks off in her front lawn. It upset her
parents and upset her. So both of her parents, a friend of hers, and her
all climbed into her dad’s truck and set off to get
their revenge. The found a road kill opossum scraped it off the ground
with a shovel, drove it to the boy’s house and left it on the hood of
his car. The next day everyone knew and everyone knew to not mess with
her or her family. In this case, revenge is
sweet, but I have seen too many times that it just causes too much
hurt.
This concept was also of interest to me, though I didn’t like it as much as attribution theory. Freud was such an intelligent person and it’s no surprise that he came up with this theory. I like how you gave your own idea of what “psychodynamic” means, and I must agree with your assessment. Psycho usually reminds me of a psychopath and dynamic reminds me of something that is ever changing. So I can see an unstable, dramatic person fitting quite well with that word.
ReplyDeleteGood analysis of the theory. Stress definitely feels like it would fit well into the mold of psychodynamic theory as a precursor to it. Frustration, tension and anxiety all seem to derive from some form of stress. Managing stress would be a good idea, good job pointing out chapter 7. Overall, excellent posting!
Hey Bianca,
ReplyDeleteWhat a strange story. I think that it is interesting that the family went out with the purpose of getting revenge on the other boy. That's intense. Growing up we've done a lot of TPing each others houses, but thats technically revenge or retaliation, but more in a jovial way, where one is not intending harm on someone. Other than that I'm also not big on the idea of pay back, especially the idea of malicious pay back, it can get out of hand way too fast. I guess revenge is kind of an instant gratification type of thing, something happens to you then all of a sudden you can chose to make something happen to them. It seems like a negative cycle to me. Well, thanks for posting. - Kenzie Marie
I have to agree with you. I too am not someone who is interested in getting revenge. I also think that it is a waste of time and as you pointed out at the end of your post, it is less common where revenge is “sweet”. There are way to many instances where revenge really hurt someone or went terribly wrong. I found your example to be very interesting and very funny. I think that this is a rare example of sweet revenge. I just do not have the time to get revenge on people; I really do not think it is worth it. You are giving that person too much of your time. Great post and great example!
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