Theory Flashcards
Psychoanalytic theory
Helps us understand human behavior
Psychoanalytic behavior: key players
Freud and Lacan
What is important in psychoanalytic theory
Family: because we are each a product of the role we are given.
Sexuality: Eros
Death drive: Thanatos
Dreams
Lacan believes in…
Symbolic order. The world known through language. The split between conscious and unconscious. All happened because of us leaving the womb.
Marxism
Theory foregrounded in economic conditions
Key player for Marxism
Karl Marx
In Marxist terminology, economic conditions are referee to as…
Material circumstances. And the social/political/ideological atmosphere is called historical situation. Neither human events nor human productions can be understood without understanding the historical/material circumstances
For the Marxist - what causes the divide?
Socioeconomic is valued over race, religion, ethnicity or gender. The bourgeoise (have) and the proletariat (have nots)
Patriotism
ideology that keeps poor people fighting wars against poor people from other countries.
Consumerism
I’m only good as the material I own.
Feminism
Women are oppressed by patriarchy economically, socially, and psychologically.
Women are objectified and marginalized.
Key players feminism
Mary Wolletonecraft, Virginia Woolf, Simon de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy
New Criticism
The text itself.
Four types of linguistic devices: paradox, irony, ambiguity, and tension
Organic unity
Structuralist
A human science whose effort is to understand, In a systematic way, the fundamental structures that underlie all human experiences.
What is structure
Wholeness: systematic functions as a unit
Transformation: system isn’t static
Self regulation: transformations of which a structure is capable never lead beyond its own structural system.
