History of Ideas
Sanat RIMT2012039
1.) Analyse how Michel Foucault’s ideas on “objectification of subject” can be used to critically understand foundations of Freudian Psychoanalysis.
Michel Foucault(1926-1984) was a French philosopher, philologist and literary critic. His theories focuses on relationship between power and knowledge, and their application by institutions to achieve control over the society. To analyze the phenomena of power, Foucault describes three modes of objectification of subject:
• Dividing practices
• Scientific classification
• Subjectification
Subject refers to the active, individual or social group, with consciousness. While, object refers to that entity on which the subject performs analysis. Objectification …show more content…
The main theme of psychoanalysis is to re-establish a relationship between the three elements of the mind by bring out the unconscious repressed conflicts and trying to find a resolve it. Freud's first methodology of treatment was based on Breuer's discovery, that when encouraged to express their symptoms, a hysteria patience would sometimes gradually become less emotional. On the assumption that the repressed conflicts were buried deep in the unconscious mind, Freud developed this “talking cure” method. In this method, the patient was asked to relax on the couch, in a soothing environment isolated from the outer society. The patient was then encouraged to talk and express anything without any restrictions, the analyst being out of sight and silent. This is called free-association. The analyst would help the patient to discover the repressed conflict by allowing the patient to talk and also asking carefully selected questions. The interpretation of the dream, slips of tongue, free-association, and carefully selected questions enables the analyst to understand the repressed conflict. These conflicts should be made aware to the patient by the analyst, and to confront and engage with them
Sanat RIMT2012039
1.) Analyse how Michel Foucault’s ideas on “objectification of subject” can be used to critically understand foundations of Freudian Psychoanalysis.
Michel Foucault(1926-1984) was a French philosopher, philologist and literary critic. His theories focuses on relationship between power and knowledge, and their application by institutions to achieve control over the society. To analyze the phenomena of power, Foucault describes three modes of objectification of subject:
• Dividing practices
• Scientific classification
• Subjectification
Subject refers to the active, individual or social group, with consciousness. While, object refers to that entity on which the subject performs analysis. Objectification …show more content…
The main theme of psychoanalysis is to re-establish a relationship between the three elements of the mind by bring out the unconscious repressed conflicts and trying to find a resolve it. Freud's first methodology of treatment was based on Breuer's discovery, that when encouraged to express their symptoms, a hysteria patience would sometimes gradually become less emotional. On the assumption that the repressed conflicts were buried deep in the unconscious mind, Freud developed this “talking cure” method. In this method, the patient was asked to relax on the couch, in a soothing environment isolated from the outer society. The patient was then encouraged to talk and express anything without any restrictions, the analyst being out of sight and silent. This is called free-association. The analyst would help the patient to discover the repressed conflict by allowing the patient to talk and also asking carefully selected questions. The interpretation of the dream, slips of tongue, free-association, and carefully selected questions enables the analyst to understand the repressed conflict. These conflicts should be made aware to the patient by the analyst, and to confront and engage with them