ENGL 2005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Freudian Slip, Sigmund Freud, Dreamwork

• School: Carleton University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2005
• Professor: Jody Mason

Document Summary

Modern method to cure mental disorders based on the relationship between the conscious + unconscious minds. Psychoanalytic theory surrounding lacan and after that period (using freud to root ideas) F(cid:396)eud(cid:859)s (cid:449)o(cid:396)k has (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e a la(cid:396)ge pa(cid:396)t of weste(cid:396)(cid:374) (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e: Young girls seeing their mothers as castrated being. La(cid:272)k of the (cid:858)pe(cid:374)is(cid:859) = pat(cid:396)ia(cid:396)(cid:272)hal (cid:448)ie(cid:449) of se(cid:454)ualit(cid:455) Energy drive of sexual desire (must be developed) Emphasis: passing through these stages = normal sexuality in an adult. The (cid:858)self(cid:859) e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es hat(cid:396)ed fo(cid:396) the outside of the (cid:858)self(cid:859) (cid:396)efle(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g i(cid:374)(cid:449)a(cid:396)ds to the unconscious. Draws on the unconscious (connection) post-colonial theory: projections o(cid:374) the (cid:858)(cid:859)othe(cid:396)(cid:863) (connection) screen memory = metaphor. Ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hoa(cid:374)al(cid:455)st pa(cid:455)s atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) to the (cid:858)te(cid:454)t(cid:859) to fi(cid:374)d latent content (the unconscious) Manifest content (what we recount when we retell our dreams) Studied backwards to get to the latent content. Displacement: one thing is representing/standing in for something else (shares qualities) Literary term: metonymy (as part of figures of thought, similar to displacement)