CUST 1510H Lecture 5: Integrated Arts October 7th

• School: Trent University
• Department: Cultural Studies
• Course: CUST 1510H
• Professor: Junyk Ihor

Document Summary

Psychoanalysis : important for surrealism / tremendously influential on many areas of the arts. Argues there"s a very specific function to dream : it"s a fulfillment of a wish. Purpose of the dream when the work of interpretation has been completed, we perceive that a dream is a fulfillment of a wish . Process displacement (literally what the words means in context), substitution(something else for something else) and condensation ( as u recall the dream is blurry and condensed) Freud referred to dreams as the royal road to the unconscious . The dream as a fulfillment of an unconscious wish. Challenges older, enlightenment and rationalist conception of mind. Ren descartes i think therefore i am . Eros and thanatos ( love and death) key fundamental ___ for freud. Conflict between primitive self and social self (super-ego) repression. Dreams (jokes, slips of tongue, neurosis) as mean of evading repression. A work of art: the dream work: displacement, condensation, over determination.