Freud Flashcards
In regard to Sophocles’ play “His destiny moves only because”
“it might have been ours - because the oracle laid the same curse upon us before birth as upon him”
What does Oedipus represent?
An enlightened figure in his knowledge of the unconscious desire.
What does Hamlet represent?
He is the stereotype of a neurosis; he represses his unconscious desire.
What is Manifest Content?
The content of the dream as remembered by the individual
What is Latent Content? ( dream thoughts )
The hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream, discoverable by the analysis of the dream.
“A dream is”…
“a picture puzzle”
“The dream thought and the dream content are presented to us like…”
“two versions of the same subject matter in 2 different languages”.
What is ‘Displacement’?
Replaces a latent element by a well-concealed allusion to it, so the psychical emphasis is shifted from one important element to a relatively trivial one.
What does the Uncanny resemble in Romanticism?
The Burkian sublime.
What are the two categories of Freud’s Sublime?
The Aesthetics, which is to him all that is beautiful and attractive, and the Uncanny, which is “a field of frightening”
How is the Uncanny produced?
When the distinction between imagination and reality is effaced.
“The fetish is a substitute for…”
“the woman’’s penis that the little boy once believed in and does not want to give up”
Why would a child feel threatened by the absence of a penis ?
Because he feels it threatens his own.
The child suffering from a fright of castration achieves a compromise where…
The woman has a penis but it is changed, replaced by a substitute.
“The horror of castration has”
“set up a memorial to itself in the creation of the substitue”
The fetishism is “ a token of…”
“triumph over the threat of castration and a protection against it”
Which are the three ways in which the child deals with the fright of castration ;
- The subjects surmounts his fear
- The fear turns to disgust and the subject becomes a homosexual
- The fear is delt with by the creation of a fetish
In the traumatic moment of the first encounter with this fright of castration, what usually happens ?
An averted gaze brings about a deferred desire, creating the fetish.
