Psychoanalysis

• id and superego aren't part of our control

• id

  • genetic
  • you can't control

• superego

  • Societal expectattions
  • permeate your unconscience
  • society norms

• ego mediates both

• id and superego are in conflict

• causes neurosis

• only species with the superego

• biologically ingrained in them

• conflict with our instincual means

• havent evolved much, but we have made big inventions

• conflict of the id and the superego is unique to humans

• Death Drive

  • we have frustration
  • the lack is created
  • lack is the real
  • feel loss and we need to get back to a state of sense
  • want to get back to the time where everything was simple, and you didn't
  • language colonizes us
  • real => imaginary
    • lose power
    • have a lack
    • you get an idea of what will fill it
    • anything you acheive
    • think you will feel happy about myself
  • its when you want something, and get something
  • enjoying proccess is the death drive
  • lack is there, and detah drive is how you want to solve it
  • can be self sabatoge

• register theory

  • symbolic
    • The customs and institutions
    • rules traditions and cultures
    • how they intertwine witth language
    • collective imaginaries
    • learning language
  • real
    • state of nature where we are severed from state of language
    • when we don't know anyone
    • like a baby, we don't know anyone
    • only care about your id
    • once introduced to language, you are severred from the real
  • imaginary
    • subjective understandings
    • its what we think others are
    • what we imagine ourselves to be
    • imagine they mean
    • its not what we imagine
    • looking in a mirror

  Links

  • When you misunderstand why you feel unhappy
  • collectively think that 1 policy will be 1 thing
  • attaching importance because we feel the need to attach importance