Simon Jones
simon.jones@leeds-art.ac.uk
- The development of the psyche from birth
- The development and role of the unconscious in our everyday lives
- The development o gender identity
- Understanding the complexities of human subjectivity
Not only a form of therapy, a theory of the mind, a way of categorising and understanding desire motivation and dreams. the idea that we are not completely in control of our mins and therefore actions.
Sigmund Freud
- Concept created in 1890's
- He treated hysteria patients using psychoanalysis, he did this by guiding them to discover and accept repressed thoughts or past events.
- He also analysed dreams, looking for hidden associations and linking them to wish fulfilment.
- He observed infants and the link they had with their parents,
The dynamic unconcious
Created through infancy to protect our conscious selfs from events, thoughts and ideas with are not acceptable
Continues to affect our conscience selves in some ways
the unconscience is chaotic, without or and without language.
Stages of development
Our development into wilful, conscience beings is full of confusing, contradictory and misapprehended thoughts and ideas,
Psycho-Sexual identity
Oedipus Complex
- Sexual/love feelings towards mother and resentment of father, through childhood dependance and self catered world view.
- Feelings of love, rivalry, jealously all mixed confusing feelings " to want" v' " to be wanted".
- Develpoment of both masculine and feminine identities in relation to the penis/phallus
- Castration Complex-
- The boy fears castration while the girl accepts she has been castrated ( the phallus as a symbol of power
- Penis envy
- The girl experiences this when she releases she does not have a penis, not as a sexual organ but as a way of relating to the father.
- Presence/ absence- both create possible negative feeling, the boy fears castration and the girl feels as if she is missing something,
- The child must experience and overcome these mixed feelings in order to gain a sexual identity, within the order of language and wider society.
The uncanny
- unhomely
- something with is simultaneously unnatural yet familiar
- something which was supposed to be kept hidden but has come to the open.
- where the foundry between fantasy and reality break down
- analogies between the the unconscious and the uncanny
Freudian models
- Id ego and superego, we are bio socio individual beings
Id inconcious - represents the biological/ instinctual part of ourselves
Unconscious, Preconscious and Conscious
Jacques Lacan
- In the 1960's and 70's Lacan presented his own brand of psychoanalysis, claiming a "return to Freud"
- He reconceptualises Freud findings throughout the theoretical model of structural linguistics. Signification.
- Lacan posited that the development of the psyche is entwined within the structures of language.
The mirror stage
the point at which where the child has recognition of itself in others, this created a split, throwns the child into a stated of alienation, before hand the child see's itself as the centre of the universe, this causes and eruption of the ego and it feels it has lost something, it has lost the centre of its universe,
Our Ego is constantly struggling to fill up the gap in which we are missing ourselfe, there fore it creates a personality, in order to fill up the ga.
Captation is when the child is absorbed and repelled by the image of its own reflection due to the gap, "Who am I?" "Is this me?" We are obsessed how others see us
Lacanian Inconscious
The unconscience is structural like a language
Mataphor / metonymy
Symtom - metaphor, a word is used to represent something else, which posses similar characteristics
Symtoms are translated elements of unconscience material adopting a metaphor style.
Lacian Phallus
Not the biological penis but a symbol of power attained through its associated `Lack the potential lack for male and the actual lack for female
The order of reality
The real-where our most basic animalism selves exist
The imaginary -the order before symbols
The symbolic- exist outside ourselves
Psychoanalysis and art criticism
Subjectivity- what it is to be human,
to help us understand why hints are as they are
to help understand artists/designers motivation
Applied physchoanlysis to advertising and PR campaigns
Revolution in advertising by intro ducting manipulation techniques.
Promotong lifestyle rather than the product
Conclusion
Psychoanlysis provides up with a definition of the unconscious and a definition of logic and rationality
a tool to help umderstand motivations and meaning of art works, and how and why they affect ut.
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