Freud Blog

Wednesday, March 07, 2012

No Class Wednesday

No class Wednesday 3/7. See you after the break!

The readings for after the break are available now. Check our online syllabus.

The password to read the electronic reserve material is: stanovsky2302

Saturday, March 03, 2012

Please?

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Review

Below is a list of some of the terms and ideas we have studied so far in the course. This list is intended only as a starting point for your study, not as a comprehensive guide.

history of dream interpretation
Irma dream
Botanical monograph dream
Burning child dream
Uncle with the Yellow Beard dream
Guillotine dream
over-determination
wishes
distortion
manifest vs. latent content
censorship
conscious
unconscious
repression
recent and indifferent material in dreams
infantile material
somatic sources
embarrassing dreams
death dreams
exam dreams
Oedipus and Hamlet
dream-work
condensation
displacement
representability
secondary revision
cathexis
dreams as "regressive"
pleasure principle
reality principle
anxiety dreams
Hitchcock's Spellbound
Salvador Dali
Surrealist Manifesto

Monday, February 27, 2012

Traversing the Void- Ninja

Here's a nifty little poem I wrote. What do you guys think?

Traversing the void
in its shapelessness and
vast openness that comes
from infinite emptiness
creating all usefulness. This
forever moving, always still,
never ending, unbending yet
mailable force shifts and turns
always reversing, already reversed
beyond comprehension, outside of
all known and unknown dimensions
creating frictionless tension
challenging all intentions.
One without desire to uncover the
secrets of this freakish phenomenon
traveling without traveling on and on
and on and on, so on and so forth,
backwards, behind, below, above, inwards,
outwards. Constantly shifting its
shiftlessness, witnessing nothing ye
penetrating everything stimulating
all stimulations.
Everything in Chaos and Natural
spontaneity, the discourse of knowledge.
Knowledge, the falsity of knowing
the nothing that is known
cosmic relation to cosmic relation
erasing our place in chasing the
end of end, the beginning of beginning,
the here and the now.
The subtle rhythm of the
reflection of the rhythmless
is the rhythm of keeping on and
is only a method to keep on keeping on
is this world that is already beyond on
beyond off...
Is it possible for one to keep on keeping on
until we get beyond on?
Is it possible to get beyond the space of in?
Is there a space out?

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Changed Office Hours

My office hours for the rest of the semester will be Monday and Thursday from 8:30-11:30 am at Espresso News. Any last minute changes or cancelations will be noted on my home page.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Movies

Psycho--I think a good part in this movie that could be interpreted is right after she trades her car in and is imaging what the people are saying. It's like she is dreaming up this wish-fulfillment conversation where she doesn't get in trouble for stealing the money.

Wild At Heart--I think the scene of this movie that is good for interpretation is when she starts comparing her boyfriend to her father while they are sitting naked in bed. Something else that could be interpreted is how they both see the wicked witch of the east as her mother all the time and her clicking her red heels together. Her mother also has the crystal ball that she uses just like in the Wizard of Oz.

Alice In Wonderland--Of course I've seen this movie before, I just really wanted to watch it again. The part of this movie that I found to be the most relevant to dream interpretation was basically all of the movie after she crawls into the hole. Right before she crawls into the hole, she sings a song about a world she would like to live in which all animals could talk, flowers had powers, etc. Wasn't this all just be a dream she's having about the song she was just singing? The part where she is running away at the end would be good for interpretation I believe.