MDSA01H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Freudian Slip, Piggy Bank, Psychoanalytic Theory
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Instead, the drives become frustrated, repressed, or sublimated (redirected into easier or more socially acceptable channels). The relationship between drives/ wishes and the unconscious is less like a penny in a piggy bank and more, to borrow a metaphor from freud, like an iceberg in the ocean. The pre-conscious is the link between the unconscious and consciousness, and through it repressed drives most commonly bubble up to consciousness in the form of dreams. In fact, freud would suggest that (cid:449)e ofte(cid:374) (cid:862)get (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e (cid:449)a(cid:374)t(cid:863) i(cid:374) ou(cid:396) d(cid:396)ea(cid:373)s (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) ofte(cid:374) o(cid:396)igi(cid:374)ate from repressed drives. Should the dream be so intense that the dreamer remembers it upon waking, the drive becomes somewhat known to consciousness, though often obscured beneath layers of dream symbolism. The death drive, also called thanatos, compels the individual toward division from others and a rejection of the living world, often manifesting as aggression or other destructive impulses.
