Lecture 3

Psychoanalysis (pa)

superego/id/adject/object relations

Structure of consciousness

-we are always conscious, aware of self

-how we perceive the world

PA analzes consciousness and unconsciousness

-Iceberg metaphor, 10% above water, what we're aware of, unconcious 90%-unaware, inclues id, superego.

-superego is out conscience, morals etc.

-id is desires and drives, sex, death, pain

-superego stops the desires and drives (id)

-to distinguish girlf and sister its our desires that tells us.

-To live in society we must repress instinctual desires-mainly sexual or aggressive (ID)

This is the process of socialisation, how we are formed.

-trauma is the failing of superego so the ID rises

-PA interprets the motivations and drives together with the unconsciousness.

Freud wrote essay on Michelangelo portrait of moses (was he about to sit or stand (act)

PA-surrealism looking at repressed desires.

PA offers us ways of thinking about desire-GTA

-Freud thinks desire to hurt stem from secondary death drive-revenge.

Object relations

-PA concern of how we view and use objects.

-When young we have toys, blankets etc for comfort which helps transition us from mothers to the outside world.

-PA says we go through life needing objects for comfort.

The abject

-part of our body that repulses us, shit etc.

-Freud believes we are desperate to keep society clean

-abject related to perversion-anchored in superego

-abject is what society cant except, the disgusting, all that is repulsive.

'visual pleasures ad narrative cinema', laura mulvey.

-All men directors, scopohilia is the enjoyment of looking, people as objects, perversion.

-Narcissistic identification-role model, wanting to be your hero.

Jacque Lacan- when children look in the mirror and see a more perfect version.

-Men look, women are viewed.

Suture

-watch 'their' gaze without feeling guilty.

-peep show entirely suture, all through their eyes.

forms of gaze

1.spectators gaze

2.intra diagetic gaze-looking at someone looking at someone else.

3.extra diagetic gaze-someone looking directly at us in media, poster, cinema etc