VIOLENCE AND PASSION IN OTHELLO’S PERSONALITY

 

In Act 5, scene 2 Shakespeare stages a femicide: the murder of Desdemona by Othello. In the scene Othello is torn between two drives,  the instincts of Eros and Thanatos.

WHAT TYPE ARE YOU?

 

 

Hi, everyone! Have you ever heard about tests of the personality types? It is an interesting kind of tests which shows what your personality type is. I did one and, after seeing the results, I was surprised and I found a lot of the behaviours described in the outcome, which is associated with the personality and relative percentages. So, today, I want to share with you all about this kind f test to understand how it works, before you try it. If you feel like doing it, of course!

COVID-19, DISTANCE AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIP

 

Thoughts, emotions and feelings have been changed drastically by the pandemic. Covid-19 demands physical distance and sees a potential enemy in our neighbour, so our habits have been questioned and are changing and adapting to new social behaviours.

HOW DOES FEAR WORK?

                                                                                 

Fear is an apparently simple - and yet extremely complex - concept. The most general definition of fear we can use is the emotion that arises in response to a potential threat. But exactly, what are the biological causes of fear? Where does it originate? What are its origins? What is its goal? In today’s article, we will try to answer to these questions.

First of all, in humans fear originates from a part of the brain known as amygdalae, which also manages various different emotions. When it detects something it considers a potential threat, the amygdalae starts sending to the entire brain electrical signals, informing them of the threat and stimulating the production of fear-associated hormones, such as adrenaline and dopamine, in order to make the body ready to flee from the threat.

INVISIBLE

Everyone happens to feel alone or powerless sometimes. In the last years, there’s been an increase of teenagers suffering from this state of mind and having consequentially repercussions on their lives.  There are several reasons why a teenager can feel “invisible”, one of them  is that we live in a society full of prejudices  and very competitive, where everyone is judged. 

Something we believe has been experienced by everyone at least once in their life, is the feeling of being invisible. If we could see all of our memories in front of us like on a movie, we're sure we’d all find that particular moment in which we felt like we were alone in the world, and it's not so fun at all. We could define this type of invisibility as 'harmless', because, sooner or later, we find a way out of it. However, there are some people who are not able to come out of it so easily, people who feel like this all their lives.

On the contrary to what is generally assumed, feeling invisible is a common experience, especially among teenagers, so among us. Actually, we feel that people do not think about this problem at all, and that's why we do not even realize it also affects the closest people we have.

WHY DO WE LIKE WATCHING HORROR MOVIES?

A few days ago, I was alone in my bedroom watching a horror movie and  wondered why we like watching films that scare us. Apparently it doesn’t make much sense but…

HOW MUCH THE RORSCHACH TEST SAYS ABOUT YOU

Have you ever wondered why psychiatrists show strange ink pots to their patients? Or a better question is: how can they understand if that patient is a psycho just with this simple test?

Actually this very famous test often pictured in movies or tv series can say quite a lot about your personality and we are going to discover exactly how to use the Rorschach test.

First of all, let’s discover the origins of this test.