HREQ 1900 Lecture Notes - The Body Beautiful, Shani, Jacques Lacan

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 1900
• Professor: Nadiah Habib

Document Summary

Today we look at some theoretical ideas about the feminine and femininity. Sigmund freud, who many consider the father of psychoanalysis, has greatly influenced our culture and his ideas have shaped how we understand ourselves. His ideas were highly controversial in his time many victorian sensibilities were deeply shocked and denounced freud"s ideas [difficult knowledge], particularly in the area of sexuality. Let"s look at some of the ideas that people found challenging. The unconscious splits the subject into consciousness/and/ unconscious motives and desires. [how is that a challenge to previous historical ideas?] B. a knowing self unconscious self we have little access to the unconscious. Slips of the tongue; the unconscious speaks in our dreams. We speak the past through free association to try to access what has been repressed. In order for infants to become adult human beings they need to give up certain desires and begin to be socialized into the larger social world.