Psychoanalysis Lecture

What is Psychoanalysis?

- It was formed and a type of therapy, 

- They tried to make and understanding of the human psyche 

- They developed and understand of the Unconscious and how it effects everyday lives. 

- It also identifies sexuality and sexual identity. 

- They made and understanding of human subjectivity. 

Its not only a form of therapy, its a way of understanding desire, motivation and dreams. 

SIGMUND FREUD

- First made the idea of Psychoanalysis in the 1890s

- He treated hysteria patients by guiding them to discover and accept repressed thoughts and event. 

- Dreams: Analysed his own and other peoples dreams to find out the own hidden associations and 'wish-fulfillment'

- He also observed infants in their habits and associations with parental figures. 

DYNAMIC UNCONSCIOUS

- Contains repressed idea that we experience as infants. 

- unconscious does have some connection with the consciousness - makes it self known through tricks, slips and symptoms. (e.g saying something you didn't mean to say) 

Unconscious doesn't control you but it does come out at times! 

STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

- Conscious beings is full of confusing, contradictory and misapprehended thought and ideas. 

- The developing child has to go through stages: oral, anal and phallic. 

PSYCHO-SEXUAL IDENTITY

Oedipus Complex - Sexual.love feelings towards mother and resentment of farther….through childhood dependence and self-centred world view. 

Oedipus complex - feelings of love, rivalry, jealousy all mixed….confusing feelings 'to want' vs. 'to be wanted'

- Development of both masculine and feminine identities in relations to the penis/phallus.

Castration complex - the boy fears castration while the girl accepts that she has already been castrated. (the phallus as a symbol of power)

Penis-envy - the girl also experiences the castration complex because she feels the mother has taken away her 'penis' which leads her to be attracted to her farther more. 

-the penis shows power!  

THE UNCANNY

-'Unhomely'

-something that is simultaneously unnatural yet familiar.

-something that was supposed to remain hidden which has come to the open.

-film makers of horror films have used 'the uncanny' instead of creating a 'bad guy'

JACQUES LACAN

- 'Without language we are not human'