Theories of the Mind

 

Here is an outline of Freud's theory, which will be the basis for class discussion:

conscious/unconscious:

repression
sublimation

dreams:

latent/manifest content
dreamwork
free association
over-determination
primary and secondary processes
secondary elaboration

childhood development:

primal scene
oral/anal/genital stages
penis envy
castration complex
Electra complex [do not use this!]
Oedipus complex
genitality

treatment:

analysand
abreaction
transference/counter-transference

the map of the mind:

pleasure principle
reality principle
id/ego/superego
repetition compulsion
death instinct

technical terms:

cathexis
introjection
projection

More on the ego

why are stories so popular?

the reading trance: Nell, Lost in a Book (alibris, amazon)
reading and dreaming
"his majesty the ego, the hero of every daydream and every fiction"
the entertainment industry

why?

if the theorists of the mind (all of them) are right, then being an ego is not easy.