Katelyn Cornett

How often do we hear of people becoming drunks after a bad relationship, losing a job, or after some other type of conflict with another party? We quite often hear about people diverting to alcohol as a form of escape. But, why do people revert to alcohol to divert their pain instead of facing it head-on? In Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud proposes that suffering is a sensation that occurs in the highest degree among relationships between men and they utilize drunkenness as the greatest way to rid themselves of a sense of unhappiness.  So, what is the end goal of man’s life? Freud states that people “seek happiness, they want to become happy and remain so. There are two sides to this striving… [to eliminate] pain and discomfort” (Freud 15). Freud discusses many ways to eliminate pain and he says the utilization of the pleasure-principle is how people obtain pleasures from around them. However, we are dealing with the issue of eliminating pain. Freud says, “There are pe...

Getting the chance to speak to prospective students at the GB Accepted Students Day session was a neat experience. I did not visit Faulkner on the Accepted Students Day for 2018, so it was neat to experience the day from the other side and to meet a few possible new GB students. I really enjoyed getting to hear what the current students had to say about the program and how it has personally affected them in their college career and personal growth. I think it is important that current students and prospective students attend the sessions each year because that is where we first begin to bond with the new members of the family. The setting is very open just like it is in classes.