Psychoanalysis Vocabulary

Does not refer to conscience. means not conscious and unaware. repressed drives and desire

Drives, instincts, and defenses. When we feel threatened by our desires we often repress them. This generates teh unconscious which consists of repressed drives. Freud did not see repression as a bad thing, if not for repression we'd all be killing each other, etc.

"transfer" repressed drives. redirecting them with other activities, which is how we build culture and civilization.

To say anything and everything that comes to mind, no matter how randomly.

During psychoanalysis, analysands, preoccupied with their own concerns, can transfer onto the analyst emotions that apply to someone else, typically another authority figure, such as the analysands' mother or father. Does not interfere with analysis.

"many forms" and perverse means "turning upside down or overturning" People are born without any particular sexual or gender identity. When an infant is born, it's sexual identity is undefined and unfixed. The stages are Oral Stage, Anal Stage, and Phallic Stage. During the Oral stage the infant is in the state of comfort (how they approach the world through their mouths), followed by the Anal Stage where they take pride in learning to control their bowels. Lastly, the Phallic Stage (which leads to adulthood) is when the infant is obsessed with the phallus
(represenation of the penis, signfies power)and will either become homosexual or heterosexual. This will conclude whether they will have a healthy sexuality.

The desire that a young child feels for the opposite-sex parent and hostility against the same sex parent. Freud states "all boys have oedipal complex" desire to have sexual relations with their mother and want to kill to their fathers.

When a boy observes that his mother has no penis, the boy supposes (consciously) that the mother has been castrated and fears that the father will castrate him.

Repressed drives can pop back up in the form of neurotic symptoms, disguised representations of unconscious desires.

A girl who has love for her mother and turns her attractions to her father, but she senses that attraction for her father is not allowed, so she turns back to identifying with her mother, identifying with the castrated mother .

The dreamwork gets in between the unconscious and the dream, then in between the dream and our memory of the dream. Dreams mediate between the latent content (unconscious desires) and the manisfest content (the actual dream) (see page 118)
There are three stages: latent, dreamwork, and manisfest.
During dreamwork there is censorship (rejection), compromise (lets some through by altering), displacement (metaphor), and condensation (metonymy, fig of speech defined by something else, ie. "Washington=government")

In comparison's w/ Freud's Polymorphous Perversity"; Lacan a student of Freud created the "Mirror Stage" . Lacan believes the 6th-18th months of a child's life (the prelinguistic stage), the infant senses itself and sees and identifies with it's own reflection and realizes it's entity in this universe. This is known as the Mirror stage, this is when the infant feels wholeness and complete. It is followed by the Symbolic Stage which is the state of lack where difference and absence reign. Instead of fullness there is incompleteness and distance. Lastly, the "Law of the Father" does not require an actual father. During this stage, the father becomes authority figure, the voice of rules, this forces us to repress our unconscious.

Also known as the "scopic drive" the way that looking itself is steeped in the erotic.

(ie. The Sandman) The Hiemlich is known as homely, yet seems homely to us, but not to others. Heimlich is also known as something safe and if unsafe or unfamiliar, it is known as Unheimlich. (see notes)