Sigmund Freud: Creative Writing and Daydreaming, Psychoanalysis in Culture

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Sigmund FreudCreative Writing and
Daydreaming,Psychoanalysis in Culture

• Presentation by
• Eric McKee and Jon Schenke
• Teacher Edition

Edited By Dr. Picart Associate Professor of
English Courtesy Associate Professor of Law
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Freud is known as ________________________.

• What country did Freud come from?
• What period did he live in?

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Creative Writers and Daydreaming

• What is the relationship between creative writers
  and daydreaming, according to Freud?

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Childs Play

• What is the significance of childs play to Freud?

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Fantasies Put in Two Main Groups

• Ambition
• __________________________________________

• Eroticism
• __________________________________________

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Question?

• Do you all agree with Freud that womens
  fantasies and daydreams are dominated by
  eroticism, rather than ambition?

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Similarities between fantasies (daydreams) and
dreams

• Fantasies
• __________________________________________

• Dreams
• __________________________________________

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Relation of Creative Writer to the
DaydreamerPast, Present and Future

• Present ___________________________
• Past ______________________________
• Future ____________________________

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Why the Creative Writer isnt Scrutinized like
the Daydreamer

• __________________________________________________
  ________________________________________

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Psychoanalysis in Culture
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Origin of the Incest Taboo

• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ________________________________________

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What does Freud mean by Ambivalence.

• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  _____
• This love creates ________ after the Deed.

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Totemism

• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ________________________________________

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The Sacrificial Animal

• The totem animal in reality is a substitute for
  the ________________.
• In primitive societies __________ was the only
  bond inviolable and absolute.

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The Feast

• The totem meal was the beginning of
• _________________________________
• _________________________________
• _________________________________

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Patriarchy is . . .

• __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  ________________________________________

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Religion

• Religion is based on the first taboo--
  __________________________________________________
  __________________________________________________
  _____

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Back to the Deed

• _________ was based on complicity in the common
  crime ________ was based on the sense of guilt
  and the remorse attaching to it while _________
  was based partly on the the exigencies of this
  society and partly on the penance demanded by the
  sense of guilt.

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God the Father

• God is formed in the likeness of the ________.
• The totem animal is a ________ ________.

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The Son

• The introduction of __________ increased the
  sons importance in the patriarchal family.
• In the Christian myth the original sin was the
  ________________________.
• Self sacrifice points back to ______________.
• Atonement with the father was complete since the
  sacrifice was accompanied by a ___________________
  ________ on whose account the rebellion against
  the father was started.

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Greek Tragedy

• The Hero
• must bear the burden of tragic guiltwhich is?

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Greek Tragedy

• What role does the chorus play in Greek Tragedy?

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Links
www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/2967/Freud.html This
has more Freud links than you could ever want.