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Psychoanalysis. A person is an embodied being located in a spatio -temporal structure of things and events, so having a point of view, and is also an active being located in a structure of rights and obligations, so having a sense of moral responsibility .
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A person is an embodied being located in a spatio-temporal structure of things and events, so having a point of view, and is also an active being located in a structure of rights and obligations, so having a sense of moral responsibility. People are whatever fits into a theoretical framework of what is to be a person
Why people write and how text affects their reader? While literature is considered to be a body of language – to be interpreted – psychoanalysis is considered as a body of knowledge, whose competence is called upon to interpret.
PSYCHOANALYSIS SUBJECT SUBJECT LITERATURE OBJECT Why people write and how text affects their reader?
The idea that there are unconscious processes, operations in the mind that cannot be represented is the key concept of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is the process whereby clues to representations are recognized and represented in a way that can be understood by the conscious mind.
Representative of external, social influences upon the drives Formed in the image of earliest identifications of the ego SUPER EGO Develops out of the id Pacifies the drives by offering itself as a substitute for what must be the demand (id) EGO Instinctual drives that relate to the needs of the body Primitive and needy, incapable of denying itself ID Id wants its desires and needs satisfied, this places pressure upon the ego which bears on itself the imprint of what is unacceptable via the operations of the super-ego
Psychoanalytic process relies on attaining an understanding of the operation of repression. It does not give access to the unconscious as such, it merely recognizes symptoms of it when they surface
Literature and other forms of arts can be seen as incidences of the return of the repressed. They are the result of neurotic infantile wishes or traumas which resurface without the control of the writer or artist. The text becomes something which has been created out of the manipulated fantasies of the writer to produce particular effects.
Oedipus Complex It is Freud’s assertion that sexual identity is constructed on a basis of guilt and repressed incestuous desires. the gender of the child is not solely dependent on her or his genitalia, but on the development of her or his psyche. What constitute masculinity or femininity is an unknown characteristics which anatomy cannot lay hold on.
Freud is a creative writer rather than a constructor of a rigid science
Experience and physiological instincts The first difference that the infants learn is of the absence or presence of satisfaction Disrupted by the intervention of a third term, patriarchal law Asserts identity Desire to return to the utopian stage of imaginary Discovery that the imaginary is permanently lost