MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Reality Principle, Individual Psychology, Psychoanalytic Theory
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Psychoanalytic theory -> austrian psychiatrist sigmund freud: attempts to understand the psychic structure of the mind. Psychoanalytic scholars: how media texts reflect human mental drives toward unity, pleasure and desire. Individual psychology and the psychology of media and how these two interact. The one and only urge of these instincts is towards satisfaction. Pleasure principle: the uncontrollable human drive to satisfy desire: an appetite for something that promises enjoyment, satisfaction, and pleasure in its attainment: unrestricted satisfaction or every possible desire. Commonly recognized desires: sex, power, food, can also include things like fine art. Psychoanalytic scholars: can experience pleasure through: urination, horror or shock, pleasure can come from things that we don"t even associate it with. Example: appalling or gruesome spectacles (slowing down to see a car accident: pleasure is something that momentarily allows us to transcend everyday existence and reality. Ecstasy (original definition): literally being beside oneself with powerful emotion. Pleasure is what takes us outside of ourselves.
