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Major Concepts
A. Three premises in Freudian psychoanalysis:
- most of the individual's mental processes are unconscious.
- all human behavior is motivated ultimately by what we would call sexuality. The prime psychic force--libido, or sexual energy.
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because of the powerful social taboos attached to certain sexual impulses, many of our desires and memories are repressed. (from A Reader's Guide)
B. Freud--1. Structure of the psyche--superego, ego, id, perceptual-conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious
1. the child's sexual development--
a. Polymorphous sexuality, three stages, fixation,
b. Oedipal stage--gendering process, Oedipus complex, castration fear
2. dream analysis--condensation, substitution, symbolization
3. psychological diseases: neurosis, etc.--internal battle between ego and id, with psychological or physical abnormalities as symptoms (or covert expressions of desire)
4. Literature-- Psychobiography ( 作家的心理分析)
C. Jung and archetypal criticism--archetype (universal symbols);
Archetypal motif or pattern; (e.g. hero--quest, initiation, scapegoat--Oedipus and Hamlet)
Archetype--not inherited ideas or patterns of thought, but they are predispositions to respond in similar ways to certain stimuli
D. Frye's monomyth-- archetype as genres
E. Lacan--lack, mirror stage, the unconscious as structured by language |
