HREQ 1920 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Castration Anxiety, Phallic Stage, Castration

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1920
• Professor: All

Document Summary

The unconscious splits the subject into consciousness/and/ unconscious motives and desires. First, human being is split between a knowing self and an unconscious self we have little access to the unconscious. Slips of the tongue: the unconscious speaks in our dreams. We speak about the past through free association to try to access what has been repressed in our unconscious. Id: the unconscious where our desires are lodged. The irrational is driven by desire and immediate gratification. For freud, the development of the self is tied to sexuality. Infants are sexual from the day they are born (sensuousness). They can experience pleasure from stimulation on all parts of the body. 1st oral phase: the child gets pleasure from sucking (breast offers pleasure and disappointment). 2nd anal phase: the child takes pleasure in letting go and holding on. 3rd phallic phase: sexuality begins to be organized around the genitals. Oedipus conflict: occurs between the ages of 3 and 5.