EN 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Psychoanalysis
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What motivates action and how its connected to emotion. Enables a persons interiority and ables outside forces. How our desires play a role in who we are. Conscious of actions, decisions, desires, and surroundings. Consciousness of these things enable us to think. Freud: some desires don"t fit into what we should think. Unconscious: part of ourselves that we don"t think about. Always unknown to the self we will never know. Theory of the mind: unconscious and conscious. The mind is not part of the brain not in the brain. The mind exists in other parts of the body. Freud tries to figure out where the mind is. Mind is structured with conscious and unconscious. Unconscious is things you don"t want to think about. Example: desires, wants, motivations we don"t want. Drives: motivates certain expression and actions personal preferences. Preferences are certain desires that drive unconscious actions. Motivation to liking something comes from unconscious. Through liking something you can discover unknowns.