ENGL 3Q93 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Rein, Neurosis, Oedipus Complex
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Most audience members lead boring lives and what drama provides is the opportunity to identify with the hero. Tragedy in drama gives us a feeling of gratification for a while, substitute satisfaction. (like gaming) Suggests what happens to the emotions of pity and terror they become unrepressed and flushed. Catharsis is a medical term emotional flushing. Freud thinks its just another way of getting an erotic satisfaction from our neurosis. Page 90 history of drama by freud. He is making a connection between psychoanalysis and larger cultural facts. History of tragic drama in summary : we were always struggling against divinity and the natural order, religious tragic drama against social tragic drama the hero goes against social institutions. Man against his own impulses: tragedy of character and psychological tragedy, the trajectory we are shrinking, from more general to specific big to small. Oedipus did not repress his wishes and expressed his wishes unlike.