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WHO, WHAT, AND WHEN Sigismund Scholomo Freud Austria

FACTS AND MYTHS

ROMANTIC STORY-TELLER OF THE IMAGINATION Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. – John Irving A GREAT UN-SETTLER Human beings have a “naïve self-love” that is being shaken at the “hands of science.” First, there was Copernicus, who showed us that our world was not the center of the cosmos, then there was Darwin, who showed us that human progress was no different than animals.’ Finally, Freud suggested, his research delivers the “third and most wounding blow” to mankind by proving that “the ego [our rational mind] is not even master in its own house.”

OEDIPAL COMPLEX ME “MOM” Pleasure Principle - Do What Makes Me Feel Good, Even if it is Bad for Me

ME “MOM” “Dad” Reality Principle: You Can’t Always Get What You Want. You need to learn to play by my Rules.

LIBIDINAL ENERGY, OR THE ID, IS BORN

Where does this libidinal energy go? Substitution

Unhealthy Healthy Sublimation… Regression

Substitution Association

SELF-ASSESSMENT TIME (10 minutes) 1.Write down some “thin” quiz questions. e.g. Why did Freud say his theories were unsettling? 2. Write down clarification questions about concepts that are still confusing or you want to know more about? e.g. I don’t understand why the child wants to become like his father if his father is the one taking his mother away.

“WHERE ID HAS BEEN, EGO SHALL BE”.

The Three Voices “Do it, Do it, Do What You Want to – Forget the Consequences. Mom looks hot, I have to pee right now, hahahahahahah (Pleasure Principle) ID Reality “You have homework to do. If you don’t do this homework, you will not pass this class, and you will not be able to go to college. How will you make money? Where will you live? Super-Ego You must be a good kid... It is not enough to just get by, you need to be perfect. Live up to our ideals.

ID Ego Reality Super-ego Anxiety or “Neurosis ”

EVERY ACTION THE EGO TAKES BOTH… tries to conceal the unconscious and also reveals it

SELF-ASSESS (10 minutes) 1. Write down some good thin and thick questions. 2. Surf around for an auxiliary source to help further understand the concepts discussed.

SOME OF THE EGO’S SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEM… Transference Projection Wish Fulfillment (daydreaming) Repression Sublimation Displacement Condensation

FOR YOUR ASSIGNED WORD (10 minutes) 1.Use internet resources to teach yourself the meaning of the word. 2.Test your knowledge of the word by creating a “fictional” or loosely “true” scenario that demonstrates your word in action.

“The proverb tells us that one cannot serve two masters at once. The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three. These demands are always divergent and often seem quite incompatible; no wonder that the ego so frequently gives way under its task. The three tyrants are the external world, the super-ego and the id. When one watches the efforts of the ego to satisfy them all, or rather, to obey them all simultaneously, one cannot regret having personified the ego, and established it as a separate being. It feels itself hemmed in on three sides and threatened by three kinds of danger, towards which it reacts by developing anxiety when it is too hard pressed.”

Sickness Too much id? Regression? Too much super-ego?

A FREUDIAN READING OF FROZEN?

WHY HEROES ARE ALMOST ALWAYS ORPHANS AND WHY WE LOVE CSI? “Unconscious wishes are always active and ready for expression…”