SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ronald Fairbairn, Melanie Klein, Anna Freud
21 Feb 2017
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The sexual drive (eros) promotes life but the aggressive drive (thanatos) obliterates it: freud often calls thanatos the death drive . Both eros and thanatos want objects for their satisfaction. In addition, feelings of pleasure occur when drive energy is expended upon an object. Film and literary examples of freud"s theory of personality. In the movie"s climax, the pitt character is filled with rage when he finds out that the spacey character has beheaded his pregnant wife (paltrow) While the pitt character is pointing his gun at the spacey character, the. Freeman character pleads with the pitt character on pragmatic grounds not to shoot. Thus, the ego is evoked against the id and the superego is nowhere to be found: the spacey character is killed and the movie closes with a demonstration of the seventh deadly sin of anger. Literary templates for freud"s theory of personality also abound.
