Freudian Revolution

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Freudian Revolution
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Sigmund Freud

• 1856-1939
• Biography
• Pyschoanalysis
• Interpretation of Dreams, 1900

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Major Theories

• Instinctual drives
• Oedipus/Electra complex
• 3 Parts of the Brain
• Id seat of human instinct
• Ego manager
• Superego conscience
• Submilnation

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Civilization Its Discontents, 1930

• Relationship between psychic activity human
  society
• What does man demand?
• Avoid pain unpleasure
• Experience pleasure
• Definition of happiness

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Critiques of Freud

• Repression
• Sexist
• Methodology
• Results impact

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Carl Jung

• 1875-1961
• Freud too narrow
• Collective unconscious
• Archtypes

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Female Archetypes
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Female Archetypes
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Archetype of Wise Man
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Impact on Literature

• Archetypal themes
• Psychic life of dreams and memory exposed
• Pessimistic view

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Marcel Proust

• 1871-1922
• French author
• Incorporates Freudian free association in works

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Swanns Way (1913)

• Part of A Remembrance of Things Past
• 16 volume novel
• Flowing together of almost indistinguishably
  different moments
• Emphasizes the ability to reconstruct the past
  through memory bring unconscious life to
  conscious level

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Franz Kafka

• 1883-1924
• German Czech
• Reality of dreams
• Loss of logic
• Surreal/ nightmarish

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The Metamorphosis (1915)

• Gregor Samsa wakes up as a conscious vermin
• Struggles between remaining a human in spite of
  changed appearance, and temptations to identify
  with this new body
• Power struggle within family the family dynamics

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James Joyce

• 1882-1941
• Irish author
• Stream of consciousness prose
• Influenced by Freuds free association technique
• Interior monolog

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Ulysses (1922)

• Modeled on The Odyssey but drastically different
• No longer heroic
• Discontinuous verse
• Action takes place in characters minds
• Sense of desolation

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New Poetry

• Stream of consciousness
• Untraditional arrangement of verse
• Concrete poem - Apollinaire

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ee cummings

• 1892-1962
• Biography
• Experimented radically
• Distortions humor