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Psychoanalysis I: Freud - Coggle Diagram

- - - - royal road to the unconscious
      - a disguised fulfilment of a suppressed wish
  - - - 2-. Preconscious
        
        3-. Conscious
  - - - basic drives and libido
      - includes everything inherited at birth: the instincts
      - operated entirely according to the pleasure principle
        
        egocentric, irrational, sexual: strives for self-preservation and the immediate satisfaction
      - source of aggression, sex drive, and survival instinct
    - - links us to the external world
        
        operates to the reality principle: society's demands: ensuring socially acceptable / long term gratification
        
        uses intellect and reason to satisfy needs
        
        performs largely conscious psychic function: judging, reality-testing, controlling, planning, toleration
        
        negotiates between the id's demands, society's demands, and the superego's structure
        
        seat of defence mechanisms: denial, displacement, intellectualisation, rationalisation, repression, sublimation
    - - Our Conscience
        
        internalization of society's moral values: institutions and father figure
        
        prompts us to act in socially appropriate ways
        
        Functions as a restrain on the id, internal censor
        
        induces feelings of guilt, anxiety and inferiority
        
        source in the resolution of the Oedipus complex
- - - - turning of people/things/activities into symbols (pen=penis)
    - - blending of different ideas into one symbol (desire for sexual intercourse + desire to become a writer)
    - - replacement of one idea or symbol by another (desire to sleep with one's mother= desire to sleep with friend of one's mother)
- - - - boy's unconscious desire to sleep with his mother and kill his father
        
        occurs in the phallic stage of psychosexual development (3-5), when the genital become the child's central erogenous zone
        
        resolution...
        
        boy's 2 defence mechanisms
        
        repression
        
        of desire for the mother (and transfer to other women)
        
        identification
        
        with the father
        
        boy accepts the father's no
        
        occurs at the same time
        
        boys's desire makes his father a rival but the boy's id meet the father's authority
        
        Boy subconsciously fears castration
  - - - Girl unconsciously desires her mother
        
        the girl realises she cannot sexuality posses the mother because of her lack of penis...
        
        the girl develops penis envy, identifies with her mother and transfers her desire to her father
        
        girl comes to regard her mother as a rival for the father's love and wants to replace/kill her
        
        the girl's desire to have a penis is transferred to a substitute: the desire to bear the father a child
        
        girl displaces her affection for her father onto other men
    - - Displacement
        
        girl's desire to bear her father a child is displaced onto other men
        
        giving birth as a culmination of heterosexual femininity
        
        symbolically the child takes the place of the missing penis
        
        penis envy is relieved
    - - women's feelings of superiority over men; excessive seductiveness and flirting; but also submissiveness and lack of self-esteem
    - - condensation
        
        mother and grandmother
      - displacement
        
        sexual intercourse- eating the grandmother
      - symbolisation
        
        flowers, forest, red velvet cape, both of wine under the apron - sexual awakening
      - Hunstman
        
        post-Oedipal father who returns things back to normal
- - - - etymology
        
        unheimlich : unfamiliar, strange, eerie
        
        heimlich :hidden, concealed, secret
        
        related to
        
        heimisch: familiar, intimate, domestic
      - the uncanny is evoked by the return to the familiar that we repress
- - - - Death Drive (thanatos)
        
        innate will to return to a state of quietude before birth (vs. eros life instinct geared to creativity, sexuality, reproduction, self-preservation_
        
        expression of the desire to return to the mother's womb (cave)
        
        images of bodily fragmentation
        
        Turn inwards: self-destruction
        
        Turn outwards: aggressivity
        
        example: Annabel Lee by Poe