ENGL 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dreamwork, Wish Fulfillment, Freudian Slip

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 275
• Professor: Brian Lewis

Document Summary

Week 3 intro to culturl studies freud. The return of the repressed freudian slips. An example of dream interpretation: tony soprano"s dream of the ducks. Dream interpretation and the the interpretation of dream. Marx culture you have is in relation to economic structure/production. Freud has given us whole climate of opinion that we live our daily lives in. Freud and psychoanalysis related to cultural studies critics (cultural work will influence us attracted to it/drawn to it) If you act on everything you wanted to do all the time civilisation would be a disaster (freud talks about repressing actions, desires) Or you can deny the need for love because you want to hold onto your paresnts: freudian vocab contradictory thoughts (repress one to only show the other one) Unaware that we are thinking act of repression itself (acknowledge itself maybe. I"m not coherent person i"d thought) freud talks about thing called the unconscious.