Freud: Consequences of Repression

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Freud Consequences of Repression

• Psychological Disorders

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1. Civilization

• The result of our transformation/sublimation of
  unconscious desires.

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Psychological reactions disorders

• Fixation, Regression
• Sexual deviance Perversion
• Neurosis
• Psychosis

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Fixation and regression

• The psychic reversion to childhood desires. When
  normally functioning desire meets with powerful
  external obstacles, which prevent satisfaction of
  those desires, the subject sometimes regresses to
  an earlier phase in normal psychosexual
  development. (source)
• Fixation-- can be a cause for regression. The
  stronger one's fixations on earlier sexual
  objects (eg. the mouth, the anus), the more
  likely that, when a subject is confronted with
  obstacles to heterosexual satisfaction, that
  subject will respond by way of regression to an
  earlier phase.

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Perversion 5 forms

• Freud The pursuit of "abnormal" sexual objects
  without repression.
• five forms of perversion
• disregarding the barrier of species (the gulf
  between men and animals),
• secondly, by overstepping the barrier against
  disgust,
• against incest (the prohibition against seeking
  sexual satisfaction from near blood-relations),

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Perversion

• 4. That against members of one's own sex
• 5. the transferring of the part played by the
  genitals to other organs and areas of the body"
  (Introductory Lectures 15.208)
• He makes clear that a young child will not
  recognize any of these five points as
  abnormaland only does so through the process of
  education. For this reason, he calls children
  "polymorphously perverse" (Introductory
  Lectures15.209). (Freud, Sigmund. The Standard
  Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of
  Sigmund Freud. Trans. James Strachey. 24 vols.
  London Hogarth, 1953-74. )

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Fetishism

• An erotic attachment to an inanimate object or an
  ordinarily asexual part of the human body.
• "The fetishist is the adult who, because of his
  attachment to the fetish, is 'saved from
  psychosis (which is the more typical consequence
  of disavowal in
• adults). . . . (Elizabeth Grosz Jacque Lacan A
  Feminist Introduction p. 118)

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Fetishism (2)

• from Lacan Ecrit p. 197-98
• The whole problem of the perversions consists in
  conceiving how the child, in his relation to the
  mother, in his relation to the mother, a relation
  constituted in analysis not by his vital
  dependence on her but by his dependence on her
  love, that is to say, by the desire for her
• desire,. . .identifies himself with the
  imaginary object of this desire in so far as the
  mother herself symbolizes it in the phallus.

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Neurosis

• Definition an exaggeration of normal patterns of
  behaviour and may become incapacitated. For
  example they may feel the need to constantly
  check the time or that doors are locked.
• e.g. anxiety disorder ? phobia hysteria (now
  called conversion disorder)
• e.g. the neurotic begins over-eating
• the pervert gives up men and becomes a lesbian.
  (an idea of Freuds which is later criticized.
  source)

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Psychosis

• The inability of a person to distinguish between
  what is real and what is imaginary.
• Symptoms hallucination, self-delusions
• E.g. schizophrenia and manic depression.