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Simon de Beauvoir was probably best known as novelist, and a feminist thinker and writer but she was also an existentialist philosopher. Her essays, novels and other works greatly influenced feminist existentialism and social theory. Throughout her life, de Beauvoir never claimed herself to be a  philosopher and critical thinker. However, through her major contributions to politics, ethics, feminism and existentialism, she has earned the respect of the masses and an established philosopher., social activist and an intellectual. Beauvoir's most famous work was ' The Second Sex ' from 1949, a hugely influential book which laid the groundwork for second-wave feminism was concerned with women's suffrage and property rights, the second wave broadens these concerns to include sexuality, family, the workplace, reproductive rights and so on. All that started with Beauvoir outlines the ways in which woman is perceived as "other" in a patriarchal society, second to ma...

Dream Analysis is one of the important notions in Freudian theory. He considers dreams as possible entrances or outlets for repressed ideas. They are essentially symbolic fulfillment of the unconscious hopes and wishes. Dreams, in turn, become symbolic texts which need to be understood. In this context, Roman Jacobson's usage of two terms regarding the human language, metaphor and metonymy which, later, moved the French psychologist Jacques Lacan to comment that the unconscious is structured like a language. Freud opines that dreams are the outcome of daily occurrences or thoughts of everyday life. He also states that the dreams can also functions as wish gratification, the repressed sexual desires or the regret of one's childhood and the deep longing for the execution of the events in the future. Dreams may find the forms of outplay through the interplay of words or a set of images which Freud terms them as condensation, displacement and distortion. Not only the dreams, but ...