Opening Music “Sexual Healing” (original song by Marvin Gaye) Performed by Hot 8 Brass Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsDUXo5TcZY
Intro to Psychoanalysis, By Sigmund Freud Prof. Ruth M. McAdams 8 May 2017
Overview of Lecture 1. Freud’s Life and Psychoanalysis 2. The Unconscious 3. Two Lectures from the Intro to Psychoanalysis 4. Dream Interpretation, Applied
Part One. Freud’s Life and Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939
Part One. Freud’s Life and Work What is Psychoanalysis? 1) a theory of the history of the individual mind 2) a set of therapeutic tools for coming to terms with that history
Psychoanalysis Today
Part Two. The Unconscious
The Unconscious
“dreams are not a somatic, but a mental phenomenon” (90) Part Three. two lectures on dream interpretation from A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis “dreams are not a somatic, but a mental phenomenon” (90)
From the Sixth Lecture: “it is not only quite possible, but highly probable, that the dreamer really does know the meaning of his dream; only he does not know that he knows, and therefore thinks that he does not” (91).
From the Sixth Lecture: “I require him to give himself up to the process of FREE ASSOCIATION which follows when he keeps in mind the original idea. This necessitates a peculiar attitude of the attention, something quite different from reflection, indeed, precluding it” (96).
“So I gave up trying to think and, instead of the name I had lost, let substitute names come into my mind. They came quickly: Monte Carlo itself, then Piedmont, Albania, Montevideo, Colico. . . Montenegro. . . . I noticed that four of the substitute names have the same syllable, ‘mon,’ and immediately I recalled the forgotten word and cried out ‘Monaco.’ You see the substitutes really originated in the forgotten name (100).”
“So I gave up trying to think and, instead of the name I had lost, let substitute names come into my mind. They came quickly: Monte Carlo itself, then Piedmont, Albania, Montevideo, Colico. . . Montenegro. . . . I noticed that four of the substitute names have the same syllable, ‘mon,’ and immediately I recalled the forgotten word and cried out ‘Monaco.’ You see the substitutes really originated in the forgotten name (100).”
“So I gave up trying to think and, instead of the name I had lost, let substitute names come into my mind. They came quickly: Monte Carlo itself, then Piedmont, Albania, Montevideo, Colico. . . Montenegro. . . . I noticed that four of the substitute names have the same syllable, ‘mon,’ and immediately I recalled the forgotten word and cried out ‘Monaco.’ You see the substitutes really originated in the forgotten name (100).”
“It is easy to show that the connection with the tune is to be sought either in the words which belong to it or in the source from which it comes: I must, however, make this reservation, that I do not maintain this in the case of really musical people of whom I happen to have had no experience; in them the musical value of the tune may account for its suddenly emerging into consciousness” (97).
Seventh Lecture Manifest Content: what literally happens in the dream Latent Content: what the dream actually represents
Seventh Lecture “We are not to trouble about the surface meaning of the dream, whether it be reasonable or absurd, clear or confused; in no case does it constitute the unconscious thoughts we are seeking.” (103)
Part Four. Dream Interpretation, Applied
Dream A, page 106