Psychoanalysis Flashcards
Why is the Lacanian ‘fort-da’ game a ‘presence made of absence.’
In the womb we were complete, in mother (with being). But after language I become subject and when I refer to myself it is in the symbolic (object). You refer to me as ‘you’ I refer to myself as ‘me.’
I think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think.
What does Lacan mean by ‘castration?’
the symbolic loss of being that is necessary to enter meaning.
What in Lacanian terms is the lost object of the real that pushes the narrative of our lives forward?
Reuniting with mothers body
Scopohilia
The pleasure of looking
‘taking other people as objects, subjecting them to a controlling gaze’-Freud
What are the two ways that political psychoanalysis patriarchal society structured women in film?
(i) she is the object of Male desire
(ii) she signifies the threat of castration
Remember the metaphor from Patricia Highsmith. Why were the men so outraged that the boy exposed the contents of the black house?
he ‘black house’ was forbidden to the men because it functioned as an empty space wherein they could project their nostalgic desires, their distorted memories; by publicly stating that the ‘black house’ was nothing but an old ruin, the young intruder reduced their fantasy space to everyday, common reality. He annulled the difference between reality and fantasy space, depriving the men of the place in which they were able to articulate their desires (337).
Death drive
, “opposition between the ego or death instincts and the sexual or life instincts”.
What are we to believe from the doctrine of Judge Schrebers case?
Attraction and repulsion produce intense nervous states that fill up the body without organs to varying degrees-states which the Schreber-the-subject passes of transition following and endless circle of eternal return.
Sublimation
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(in psychoanalytic theory) divert or modify (an instinctual impulse) into a culturally higher or socially more acceptable activity. In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defense mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are unconsciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behavior, possibly resulting in a long-term conversion of the initial impulse.
Who discovered partial objects?
Melanie Klein
How does a child compensate for the family nature of sexual desire (Oedipal triangle) later in life when he is deeply involved in social relations no longer familial?
1 of 2 ways.
1: sexuality is sublimated or neutralized in metaphysical relations.
2. These relations bring into play a non sexual energy for which sexuality has merely served as the symbol of anagogical beyond.
What attributed lack?
Partial objects
What is the female counterpart of the male “castration anxiety?”
Penis envy
Wilhelm Reich denouncement of Freudianism.
Better to depart in search of the Orgone in search of the vital and cosmic element of desire than to continue being a psychoanalyst under these conditions
Organe
Orgone is a pseudoscientific and spiritual concept described as an esoteric energy or hypothetical universal life force, originally proposed in the 1930s by Wilhelm Reich. Wikipedia
