Sigmund Freud:Creative Writing and Daydreaming,

Psychoanalysis in CulturePresentation by:

Eric McKee and Jon Schenke

Teacher Edition

Edited By: Dr. PicartAssociate Professor of EnglishCourtesy Associate Professor of Law

Freud is known as ________________________.

• What country did Freud come from?

• What period did he live in?

Creative Writers and Daydreaming

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

Child’s Play

• What is the significance of child’s play to Freud?

Fantasies Put in Two Main Groups

• Ambition

• __________________________________________

• Eroticism

• __________________________________________

Question?

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

Similarities between fantasies (daydreams) and dreams

• Fantasies

• __________________________________________

• Dreams

• __________________________________________

Relation of Creative Writer to the Daydreamer:

Past, Present and Future

• Present ___________________________

• Past ______________________________

• Future ____________________________

Why the Creative Writer isn’t Scrutinized like the Daydreamer

• __________________________________________________________________________________________

Psychoanalysis in Culture

Origin of the Incest Taboo

• ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

What does Freud mean by: Ambivalence.

• _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• This love creates ________ after the Deed.

Totemism

• ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Sacrificial Animal

• “The totem animal in reality is a substitute for the ________________.”

• “In primitive societies __________ was the only bond inviolable and absolute.”

The Feast

• The totem meal was the beginning of:

• _________________________________

• _________________________________

• _________________________________

Patriarchy is . . .

• ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Religion

• Religion is based on the first taboo-- _________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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.”

God the Father

• “God is formed in the likeness of the ________.”

• The totem animal is a ________ ________.

The Son• The introduction of __________ increased the

son’s 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.”

Greek Tragedy

• The Hero– must bear the burden of “tragic guilt”—which

is?

Greek Tragedy

• What role does the chorus play in Greek Tragedy?

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