MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Male Gaze, Fetishism, Paraphilic Infantilism
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Need for nutrition is satisfied by the ingestion of edible foods) Reality principle: the constant curbing of drive according to possibility, law, or social convention. Unconscious: a mental screen behind which the individual cannot clearly or consciously recognize. Repression: the immersion of a drive beneath the unconscious, temporarily relieves the sense of frustration, but the drive always waits for an opportunity to make itself known again in either the pre-conscious or to consciousness. Desire: the unquenchable yearning for love or recognition that no one else can ever perfectly or absolutely fill (achieving something may satisfy our needs, but not our desire) Imaginary: is a primary developmental space in which the child learns to make demands; it is the realm of chaotic images and sensory impressions into which the child is born. Symbolic: the cultural order of meaning maintained through words and symbols. Lack: in psychoanalysis, the unquenchable quality of desire that references the difference between the imaginary and symbolic orders.
