MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Freudian Slip, Borromean Rings, Jacques Lacan
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Repressed or lost desires influence the creation of media artefacts and explain the mental drives activated by those artefacts -> particularly taboo things -> what happens when we repress those desires. Freudian psychoanalysis -> sigmund freud (1856-1939) -> mostly wrong but still relevant. Mdsa01: conscious awareness provided by your senses -> relatively small. Pre-conscious: things easily called to your conscious mind -> not always accurate. Id: associated with the pleasure principle -> the uncontrollable human drive to satisfy desire, including libido, human sexual desire, the only urge of the id is toward satisfaction. It is the dark, inaccessible part of our personality -> less control over this. Super-ego: associated with the reality principle -> the constant curbing of desire according to possibility, laws (both written and unwritten), and social convention -> this is the control center -> internalized voice of the.
