ENGL 275 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Victorian Era, Utopia, Dreamwork

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Base and superstructure b: stages of development and relations of productions; working class, serfs, etc. S: legal and political overlords, also includes dominant ideologies; bourgeoisie. Misleading beliefs that cover up the way things really are, thus serving the real interest of the dominant groups. Becoming conscious of the conflict between classes and fighting it out. Psychological attempt to direct one"s own desires and impulses toward pleasurable instincts from one"s consciousness and holding or subduing it in the unconscious. Made up of condensation and displacement, and the interpretation thereof by secondary revision. Latent elements which have something in common combined and fused into a single unity in the manifest dream. Latent element replaced by something more remote, an allusion; psychical accent shifted from an important element to an unimportant one. Making something whole and coherent out of the first products of dream-work.