MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Jacques Lacan, Phallic Stage, Mirror Stage
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We tend to describe ideas of love and satisfaction in terms of completion. Media texts reflect human mental drives toward, unity , pleasure and desire. The pleasure principle- is the uncontrollable human desire to satisfy desire, or an appetite for something that promises enjoyment, satisfaction and pleasure of attainment - wanting sex, power, or food. We can experience pleasure through, urination, horror, or shock. We often gain pleasure from purposely breaking the laws, or putting ourselves in situations. Pleasure is what momentarily allows us to transcend ordinary existence than reality. Pleasure is what seems to take us outside ourselves. The reality principle- represents constant curbing of desire according to possibility, law or social convention. We learn to control our drives as we grow older and integrate into society. If we didn"t have the reality principle , then we would pursue our desires without any regard towards ourselves and those around us.
