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Psychoanalysis (4): The Return of the Repressed Structure of the Mind, Child Development Love Dream and Sexual Symbols Lacan – Desire Split Identity Sublimation Psychological Disorders; Jean Rhys Outline Q A on Freud and Lacan Art and psychoanalysis Kinds of Psychological Reactions and Disorder Example: Psycho Possible Approaches: A Summary Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea – Another Example of Displaced Identity Q A on Freud and Lacan Why is dream “the royal road to our unconscious”? Why is the unconscious structured like language? What’s the significance of this view? What is Symbolic Order for Lacan? Is it all powerful? How do we analyze a lit. text from a psychoanalytic point of view? 1. Repression and Civilization Repression of our libido (sexual energies) is inevitable; otherwise, we can be destructive and society, chaotic. Repression itself is a defense mechanism. Repression Displacement (alternative paths to satisfy instinctual desires) ? Civilization: The result of our transformation/sublimation of unconscious desires. Symptoms: the return of the repressed ? Behaviors or bodily abnormalities. Psychological reactions and disorders Psychoanalysis and Literature For Freud, dream is like art because both Fulfill wishes; Use strategies to overcome the resistance of consciousness. Interpretation of Dream//Art: detect conflicts of meanings (where wish is confronted by resistance; the textual unconscious) Ask the patient to make free association (decoding figurative language and symbol through contextual reading) Is literature, then, to be treated as merely patients to be analyzed? Sublimation: Leonardo da Vinci An illegitimate son of a notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina.? Leonardo lived with Caterina .? Lived with Caterina for approximately five years before entering the house of his father, who had in the meantime married Donna Albiera.? (p. 15) Sublimation: Examples (1) E.g. “Mona Lisa” –two images of L’s first mot