Media, Information and Technoculture 3201F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Repetition Compulsion, 1999 Stanley Cup Finals, Little Albert Experiment

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3201F/G
• Professor: Selma Purac

Document Summary

Freud"s beyond the pleasure principle (1920: fort/da game (gone/there game, when the little boy was throwing the toy, he was trying to say fort" . Gone": when he pulled it back, said da" there", allowed to manage his anxiety through absence, controlling the absence and presence of the object, = repetition compulsion as mastery of absence. This is why children play frightening games as well. Entire world of toys that allow us to experience this concepts that might be frightening to a young child. Hulk hands tv commercial: always by himself with empty boxes not directed to anyone else, hulk is an acceptable characters he uses violence, but he"s still the hero. Wwe as celebration of power and its abuse : organization that is massively popular in the us, compensate via good works" programs. Nag factor increased exposure part of the child"s vocabulary.