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What is Homoeroticism?
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the sexual attraction between members of the same sex, either male-male or female-female. Diff. from homosexuality because it refers specifically to the desire itself which can be temporary.
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What are the structures of the Psychoanalysis Model/Theory?
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Ego, Superego, and the Id.
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What is the Ego?
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Reason, Common Sense, representative of the external world.
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What is the Superego?
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The voice of culture, but remains in alliance with the Id.
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What is the Id?
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The passions, chaos, a "cauldron full of seething excitations" - the most primitive part of our being.
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What is the Superego produced by?
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The ego, but remains in alliance with the Id.
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What does the Ego develop from?
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Contact with culture.
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Where does the Id come from?
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We are born with it. (maybe its maybelline...)
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What are the components of Freud's Binary Model of the Levels of Consciousness?
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Conscious, Unconscious, and the Preconscious.
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What is the Conscious?
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The part that relates with the external world.
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What is the Unconscious?
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The site of instinctual drives and repressed wishes.
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What is the Preconscious?
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What we cannot remember at any given moment, but we know we can recall with some effort.
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What component of the Structures of Psychoanalysis can be attributed to the Conscious?
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The Ego.
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What component of the Structures of Psychoanalysis can be attributed to the Pre-Conscious?
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The Superego.
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What component of the Structures of Psychoanalysis can be attributed to the Unconscious?
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The Id.
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What is one of the key concepts of Pyschoanalytical Theory that involves turning something away, keeping it at a distance - but it never goes away?
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Repression.
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How do the things we repress, eventually return according to Freud?
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Through dreams. "The Interpretation of dreams is the royal road to the unconscious" (The Id.)
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What are the four mechanisms or processes of Dream Analysis?
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1. Condensation
2. Displacement 3. Symbolization 4. Secondary Revision |
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What is involved in Condensation?
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a) latent elements omitted
b) only part of the latent element arrives in the manifest content c) latent elements condensed into composite structures |
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What is involved in Displacement?
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-Through a chain of association
- Creating substitute Structures |
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What is involved in Symbolization?
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Identifying sexual symbols (phallic symbols, pits, hollow spaces, etc.)
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What is involved in Secondary Revision?
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The narrative the dreamer creates
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What is Author-centered analysis?
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Treating a text as equivalent to an author’s dream – “dreams that have never been dreamt at all – dreams created by imaginative writers and ascribed to invented characters in the course of a story”
pg.99 |
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What is Reader-centered analysis?
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Fictional texts stage fantasies that offer the possibility of unconscious pleasure and satisfaction.
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What does interpreting dreams/texts/readers tell us about the meaning of a text?
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A reader does not passively accept the meaning of a text, he or she actively produces its meaning, using the discourses he or she brings to the encounter with the text.
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What is Lacanian Psychoanalysis?
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Lacan rereads Freud using the theoretical methodology developed by structuralism
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According to Lacan, what are we born into?
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A condition of ‘lack’ and subsequently spend the rest of our lives trying to overcome this condition
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According to Lacan, what are we searching for?
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l'object petit a (the object small other) that which is desired but forever out of reach.
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According to Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Where do our lives begin?
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In the Real (everything before it became mediated by the Symbolic, which cuts up the real into separate parts.)
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What are the Three Determining Stages of Development?
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1. The Mirror Phase (Entering the Imaginary)
2. The "Fort-da" Game (Entering the Symbolic) 3. The Oedipus Complex (Encounter with sexual difference) |
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In the mirror phase, what does the child see other than an image of its current self?
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The promise of a more complete self.
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What is the Imaginary?
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A realm of images in which we make identifications, but in the very act of doing so we are led to misperceive and misrecognize ourselves.
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What happens after we are entered into the Symbolic through Language?
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After language we are both object and subject
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What happens to our subjectivity once we are in the Symbolic?
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Once in the Symbolic our subjectivity is both enabled (we can do things and make meaning) and constrained (there are limits to what we can do and how we can make meaning).
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What does successful completion of the Oedipus complex enforce in us?
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Enforces our transition from the Imaginary to the Symbolic and compounds our sense of lack.
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What is the Fixed Signified?
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The l'object petit a, the Real - it always escapes us.
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What is the lesson of the Oedipus Complex?
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We will never again be able to attain this precious object (l'object petit a), even though we will spend all our lives hunting for it. We have to make do instead with substitute objects
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