MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Laura Mulvey, Mirror Stage, Scopophilia
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Existence and centrality of drives. Drives: somatic demands upon the mind . Pleasure principle: uncontrollable human drive to satisfy desire (appetite for something that promises enjoyment, satisfaction, pleasure in its attainment) E. g. to satisfy biological need for hunger/nutrition, we eat. Reality principle: interplay between pleasure seeking and the realistic limits placed on that activity. Constant curbing of desire according to possibility, law, social convention. Unconscious: mental screen behind which the individual cannot clearly or consciously recognize. Repression: immersion of a drive beneath the unconscious. The id, present from birth, is the source of drives regulated by pleasure principle. Ego is the part of the id closest to consciousness that develops as the individual becomes aware of reality. Responsible for curbing drives according to reality principle. Superego is the part of the mind that equips ego with common sense, shame, etc. Sigmund freud believed human motivation resulted from sexual drive. Individuals learn to restrict fulfilling their sexual desires later in life.