PHL 710 Study Guide - Winter 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Theodor W. Adorno, Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis
12 Oct 2018
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Surrealism (dreams and dream like qualities in art and the real world) Creepy eyeball scene is a metaphor for us ( film disrupts our way of seeing; we see what the film wants us to ) Power of montage (not a real woman"s eyeball) If film can trick us into believing a woman"s eyeball is being cut, how can we be convinced that that same thing trick is not occurring in real life. The moon is associated with mysticism, insanity, femininity. Evidence for importance of psychoanalysis and the existence of the unconscious is the treating of people with psychological disorders where there is no evident medical reason for their state. Repression of things, causing a harmful reaction. Healing requires gently getting in touch with repressed feelings/events/memories. Psyche: id (internal set of desires), ego (conscious awareness, mediate claims between id and superego), superego (moral compass, parental voice) Repression causes more emotional damage than suffering consequences of not suppressing.
