ENGL 2P70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Foot Fetishism, The Symbolic, Little Red Riding Hood
7 Feb 2017
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You can"t say freud hasn"t influenced you, it has changed the way you think. We believe we are motivated by things that aren"t conscious. Invaded every discourse: psychoanalysis as interdisciplinary (217); literary criticism and psychoanalysis: bloom, brooks, felman, holland, and mulvey psychoanalysis as endlessly adaptable) The literary text equivalent to a patients dream. Finding the hidden meaning of the surface text. Conscious awareness is just the tip of the iceberg and the unconscious is much larger. The stuff in the unconscious is stuff that we once knew but have since repressed. The unconscious can"t be read directly, you have to come to it from other angles and see it bubble up in unexpected ways through dreams, neurotic behaviour and literature. Manifest (conscious or directly readable) vs. latent (unconscious, psychoanalytically discoverable) content (212); wish fulfillment (manifest content masks or adapts latent desires [215)
