Midterm Q&A Flashcards
What is not a Formalist assumption?
The writer’s mind is more than a catalyst
Freud’s concept of repression
Freud defines repression as “the state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious” (The Ego and the Id 5). He also writes, “…all that is repressed is unconscious, but not all that is unconscious is repressed” (9). Repressions can also come from the ego. Desires and memories that are too painful, anxiety producing, or deemed unacceptable, can be forced from the conscious into the unconscious by the process of repression. It is considered a defense mechanism.
Levinas’ concept of obligation
Levinas argues that obligation is what ties us to the Other. We have a fundamental, unavoidable obligation to other. Our facetoface relation with the other allows us to turn to our obligation, and this is what Levinas calls ethics. Obligation is our primary mode of existence.
Which theorist corresponds to the term valorization
Marx
Which theorist corresponds to the term Sign/Signifier
Saussure
Which theorist corresponds to the term Saying/Said
Levinas
Which theorist corresponds to the term Space-time
Irigaray
Which theorist corresponds to the term cathexis
Freud
Which theorist corresponds to the term extraverted artist
Jung
What is the difference between langue and parole in Saussurean theory?
Langue is the entire system of language and parole is a specific instance of language
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “archetype”
Jungian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “tripartite psyche”
Freudian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “Instinctive Structure”
Jungian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “Transcendental Signifier”
Lacanian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “Mirror Stage”
Lacanian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “Oedipus Complex”
Freudian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “Autonomous Complex”
Jungian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “Collective Unconscious”
Jungian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “Repression”
Freudian
From which psychoanalytic school is the term “Dehiscence”
Lacanian
Who wrote: It is easy to see that this representation of the structure of every society as an edifice containing a base (infrastructure) on which are erected the two ‘floors’ of the superstructure, is a metaphor, to be quite precise, a spatial metaphor: the metaphor of a topography (topique)
Louis Althusser in Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus
What is not a technique employed in the application of the Phenomenological method?
Discovering what is repressed within a text
The differences between Repressive State Apparatus and Ideological State Apparatus in Althusser’s writing?
RSA is a type of State Apparatus that functions by repressive and violent forms of power such as the Army, the Police, the Courts and the Prison. ISA, on the other hand, is a type of State Apparatus that functions by ideology such as the School, the Church, the Family and etc. To mention other differences, while there is one RSA, there is a plurality of ISA; also, RSA belongs to the public domain and ISA to the private domain.
What is Levinas’s idea of face is in relation to the Other
It is rather a metaphysical concept than a physical feature in which Levinas’s notion of “the other” is embodied and manifested. Being situated beyond, the face challenges our conscious effort to comprehend and categorize the (absolutely) other. The face also ‘speaks’ or calls, thus tying us to obligation towards the other even without consciously acknowledging it.