Intro 1 - Psychoanalysis in modernism and as method
Who used psychoanalysis, mostly in the register of critique directed at the patriarchal ideology that also riddled psychoanalysis.
What are feminists?
Three classifications of what one might call the “imaginary posts” that constitute personality.
What is the id, the ego, and the super ego?
This term describes the feeling of disgust and fascination that arises when something threatens our sense of identity, boundaries, or order. It is neither entirely inside nor outside the self.
What is abjection?
A Freudian psychological model of the mind which acts as an inner critic, moral voice or conscience.
What is the superego?
Psychoanalysis influenced _______ in its conceptions of the image as a kind of dream, understood by Freud as a distorted writing-in-pictures of a displaced wish, and of the object as a sort of symptom, understood by Freud as a bodily expression of a conflicted desire.
What is Surrealism?
The human child, at an age when he is for a short while, but for a while nevertheless, outdone by this animal in instrumental intelligence.
What is the chimpanzee?
Kristeva describes this as the ultimate form of the abject because it blurs the boundary between life and death, reminding us that the living body can become waste.
What is a corpse?
A state of immense pleasure or passion, so intense it may be violent or painful.
What is jouissance?
Who understood the dream as a compromise between a wish and its repression?
Who is Freud?
The French term for the event that takes place from the age of 6 months and on, where a baby has not just mastered walking and is fluttering or performing a jubilant activity.
What is trotte-bebe?
Unlike an ordinary object, which helps us distinguish ourselves from the world, the abject is something we must reject to maintain our sense of identity, even though it remains disturbingly close to us. Kristeva describes it as neither this nor that
What is the abject?
The psychological idea associated with the phrase “I think therefore I am” referring to the thinking self, or the act of thought.
What is cogito?
Psychoanalysis and _______ share several interests—a fascination with origins, with dreams and fantasies, with "the primitive," the child, and the insane, and, more recently, with the workings of subjectivity and sexuality.
What is Modernist art?
The term Lacan uses for the unified image of the self that the infant assumes upon recognizing its mirror image, forming a primordial basis for the ego before its later social and linguistic development.
What is the “ideal I”?
The process of forming a self begins partly through this act of separating from and rejecting what feels threatening or incompatible with our identity.
What is rejection, or ab-jection?
A person who defines and maintains their sense of identity by separating themselves from what they experience as threatening, disturbing, or abject.
What is a deject
Hans Prinzhorn, a German psychiatrist trained in psychoanalysis and art history was of special importance to artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, and _______?
Who is Max Ernst?
This psychoanalytic term describes the libidinal investment characteristic of the earliest stage of development, revealed in those who invented it a profound awareness of semantic latencies.
What is primary narcissism?
In Borges’s story, Lazarus Morell tricks enslaved people by promising them this, even though he intends to exploit them.
What is freedom?
The foundational act where an infant separates from the maternal body to establish individual subjectivity, the ego, and the boundary between the self and the abject.
What is primal repression?