consider why readers might derive pleasures from reading the text. interpret the significance of these elements primitive forms of thoughts that have long ago been discarded by the conscious mind yet remain present in the unconscious mind psychoanalytic method - identify the uncanny elements in the text thus, it represents the return of latent or repressed thoughts two different kinds of latent or repressed thoughts - psychological anxieties, complexes and neuroses generated by the conflict between the id and superego
the word refers to something that was previously hidden but is now revealed as well as something that was once familiar but is now strange the images in dreams are therefore not necessarily what they appear to be, and their true meaning is only revealed through analysis and interpretation Uncanny (Freud) - used the word "unheimlich" (uncanny) to describe the effect of horror stories conflicts are disturbing so the conscious mind is able to bypass the censor in the conscious mind by representing these conflicts in a disguised form to solve this conflict: they learn to redirect their desire onto an appropriate substitute and identify with the same-sex parent interpretation of dreams (freud) - dreams are attempts by the unconscious mind to resolve conflicts between the id and the superego began to develop feelings of guilt and shame due to their unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent (formation of the superego) genital stage (begins at puberty, focus of pleasure of sexual intercourse) oedipal crisis (freud) - children became of biological gender differences during the phallic stage, lead to "castration anxiety" for boys and "penis envy" for girls latent stage (5-7 years to puberty, sexual impulses are suppressed)
phallic stage (3-4 years to 5-7 years, focus of pleasure is the genitalia anal stage (18 months - 3/4 years, focus of pleasure is in the anus) sublimation repression inability to remember a traumatic event asceticism reunification of needs displacement redirection impulses onto substitutes projection projecting impulses onto others introjection adopting another's characteristics regression exhibiting childish behaviours rationalization distorting the facts sublimation transforming unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable forms psychosexual development - oral stage (0-18months, focus of pleasure is in the mouth Superego id the impulse, child-like portion of the psyche, which seeks pleasure and ignores consequences ego searches for objects to satisfy the desires of the id, but also attempts to relate the psyche to reality by negotiating obstacles superego the conscience, which is an internalization of punishments and warnings, and the ego ideal, which derives from rewards and positive models presented to the child ego defence mechanisms - repression
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