Sigmund Freud: Creative Writing and Daydreaming, Psychoanalysis in Culture

1. Sigmund Freud:Creative Writing and Daydreaming,Psychoanalysis in Culture Presentation by: Eric McKee and Jon Schenke Edited by: Dr. Kay Picart Teacher Edition

2. Freud is known as ________________________. • What country did Freud come from? • What period did he live in?

3. Creative Writers and Daydreaming • What is the relationship between creative writers and daydreaming, according to Freud?

4. Child’s Play • What is the significance of child’s play to Freud?

5. Ambition __________________________________________ Eroticism __________________________________________ Fantasies Put in Two Main Groups

6. Question? • Do you all agree with Freud that women’s fantasies and daydreams are dominated by eroticism, rather than ambition?

7. Fantasies __________________________________________ Dreams __________________________________________ Similarities between fantasies (daydreams) and dreams

8. Relation of Creative Writer to the Daydreamer:Past, Present and Future • Present ___________________________ • Past ______________________________ • Future ____________________________

9. Why the Creative Writer isn’t Scrutinized like the Daydreamer • __________________________________________________________________________________________

10. Psychoanalysis in Culture

11. Origin of the Incest Taboo • ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

12. What does Freud mean by: Ambivalence. • _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • This love creates ________ after the Deed.

13. Totemism • ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

14. The Sacrificial Animal • “The totem animal in reality is a substitute for the ________________.” • “In primitive societies __________ was the only bond inviolable and absolute.”

15. The Feast • The totem meal was the beginning of: • _________________________________ • _________________________________ • _________________________________

16. Patriarchy is . . . • ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

17. Religion • Religion is based on the first taboo-- _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

18. Back to the Deed • “_________ was based on complicity in the common crime; ________ was based on the sense of guilt and the remorse attaching to it while _________ was based partly on the the exigencies of this society and partly on the penance demanded by the sense of guilt.”

19. God the Father • “God is formed in the likeness of the ________.” • The totem animal is a ________ ________.

20. The Son • The introduction of __________ increased the son’s importance in the patriarchal family. • In the Christian myth the original sin was the ________________________. • Self sacrifice points back to ______________. • “Atonement with the father was complete since the sacrifice was accompanied by a ___________________________ on whose account the rebellion against the father was started.”

21. Greek Tragedy • The Hero • must bear the burden of “tragic guilt”—which is?

22. Greek Tragedy • What role does the chorus play in Greek Tragedy?

23. Links www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/2967/Freud.html This has more Freud links than you could ever want.