MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Preconscious, Media Consumption, Media Studies
Document Summary
Repressed or lost desires influence the creation of media artefacts and explain the mental drives activated by those artefacts. This approach is generally grounded in: genesis of individual psychology. What is at interplay: psychology of media artefact. What kind of desire is being portrayed and how: ways in which the two interact in the process of media. Discredited for a lot of his work. Erected more substantial structures than does exist. But first person to suggest we are more than our conscious tendencies and drives: we want things without being able to explain why we want them. Our ego consists of the conscious and preconscious: ego is who we are in the world, partially conscious, partially preconscious. Our id is largely our unconscious: id = pleasure seeking part of psychology. Seeks pure pleasure, and fulfillment regardless of: unconscious = mental events are more or less unavailable reality principle to consciousness.
