ENG384Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Freudian Slip, Reality Principle, Sabina Spielrein
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The death drive and the pleasure principle. The compulsion to repeat: beyond the pleasure principle, at the end, speculation about two cell organisms, trying to theorize about an instinctive drive present in all life. And how does it relate to pleasure and death: child feels pleasure making it disappear. Freud: topographical theory of the mind, preconscious, conscious, unconscious. Interpretation of dreams: structural theory of the mind: Id: unrestrained desire to please the self; basic drives like hunger, se(cid:454) : ego: introdu(cid:272)es (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:449)a(cid:455) of the (cid:862)realit(cid:455) pri(cid:374)(cid:272)iple(cid:863, super ego: moralizing conscience, beyond the pleasure principle. Desire for pleasure motivates the organism, drives and excitation: seems them as distributed throughout the body, relationship between inside and outside of the organism. Instance of an organism that is so intent on reproducting itself that it will sieze the object of its desire and be savage with it in order to make sure it can reproduce.
