Sigmund Freud Creative Writing and Daydreaming Psychoanalysis in

Sigmund Freud: Creative Writing and Daydreaming, Psychoanalysis in Culture Presentation by: Eric Mc. Kee and Jon Schenke Teacher Edition Edited By: Dr. Picart Associate Professor of English Courtesy 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.

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: _________________________________

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 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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