Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud is the founding father of Psychoanalysis during his life of 1856 to when he died in 1939. His argument is that the mind consists of three conscious parts. The Ego, Super Ego and The ID.
The Ego - This is the organised realistic party of your mind that deals with all the demands of the two bits.
The Super Ego - This is critical controlling but that tries to set limits as to what the ego can and can't do.
The ID This is sub conscious, a churning mass of desire and needed that ego has to moderate.
There is a kids TV shows called The Trap Door and the characters represent these stages of consciousness.
Berk - Represents The Ego
The Thing Upstairs - Represents The Super Ego
Trap Door - This Represents The ID
The Skull - Represents The Knowing of Death
Drutt - Represents all The Stuff we Don't Want
In the film Psycho is the story of a secretary who embezzles $40,000 and checks into a remote motel with a strange man who is controlled by his mother when in-fact her dead body is upstairs. The psychoanalysis works because there is a controlling mother a strange man and a lost lady. These characters all represent the 3 stages of consciousness. The First stage is represented by the delirious man and the Ground Floor this is The Ego stage of consciousness. Controlling Mother represent the first floor which is the 2nd stage of consciousness which is The Super Ego. Finally The Fruit Cellar and this represent the stage called The ID.
Another one of his theory's is that "things from our childhood long repressed which now seem unfamiliar" he expands on this further, "its something that is familiar, yet foreign and sometime resulting in an uncomfortable feeling.
Jacque Lacon
Lacon talks about the childhood theory more in expanded view, he talks about 'mirror phrase' this is when children realise they are not one with their mother. Hence why we go through our live trying to find a solution to it and to make us happy again. We spend our lives trying to reconnect to the world with the real self and sense of that experience as children again.We set objectives that will make us happy but when we achieve them we want more from those achievements so we then make a new goal to make us happy again.
3 steps of this experience:
Imaginary Realm (Identity things before language)
Symbolic Realm (Draws upon ideas of signifier & Signified)
The Real (We can't reach it regardless what we do)
