MDSA01H3 Lecture 7: LEC 07
Document Summary
Repressed or lost desires influence the creation of media artefacts and explain the mental drives activated by those artefacts -> particularly taboo things -> what happens when we repress those desires. Freudian psychoanalysis -> sigmund freud (1856-1939) -> mostly wrong but still relevant. Perceptional consciousness: conscious awareness provided by your senses -> relatively small. Pre-conscious: things easily called to your conscious mind -> not always accurate. Conscious mind: perceptional consciousness + pre-consciousness. Id: associated with the pleasure principle -> the uncontrollable human drive to satisfy desire, including libido, human sexual desire, the only urge of the id is toward satisfaction. Ego: acts according to the reality principle and seeks to please the id"s drive in realistic ways -> most accessible to us -> channeling negative/positive energy into constructive things. Repression -> everything that can"t be expressed -> desires, memories, etc.
