CMCL-C 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychoanalysis, Anemoi, Don Draper
25 Dec 2015
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Psychoanalysis- a science concerned with the interaction between conscious and unconscious processes with the laws of mental functioning. One of the keystones in psychoanalytic theory is the concept of the unconscious. We are not aware of everything that goes on in our minds we are not in complete control of ourselves at all times . We are emotional and vulnerable rather than strictly logical. We repress this material because we do not want to become conscious of it . Organizations and manufactures work to shape people"s behavior. Cigarettes, television, films, novels, all feed our psyches. (p. 87-89) Symbols- things that stand for other things. Symbols can be ideas, an institution, a mode of thought, a wish. We mask our unconscious sexual and aggressive desires through symbolization, which enables us to escape guilt from the superego . Conventional- words that we learn that stand for things. Accidental- personal, private, connected to one"s history.
