Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chapter 2: A Freudian Psychoanalytic
Approach
- Psychoanalysis:
- Name of the procedure for the
investigation of mental processes which
are almost inaccessible any other way,
treatment of neurotic disorders.
- Meaning
- Hidden meanings and symbolic significance of
various artifacts of material culture that a
psychoanalytic approach tot he subject attempts
to discover.
- Used when we analyze an artifact
- Artifacts and the Unconscious
- Consciousness
- What we are aware of
- What an artifact does
- Preconsciousness
- What we can dimly make out
- Other aspects of the artifact's functionality of which we may be aware
- Unconscious
- Inaccesible dark area that
makes up most of our
psyches
- Shapes our behavior
- Unrecognized
symbolic meanings
connected to the
artifact
- Ernest Dichter
- Research uncovered was that
people often have attitudes
towards objects of which they
are unaware, attitudes that are
hidden in the unconscious
areas of their psyches.
- Structural Hypothesis:
Suggests that our psyches
have three components
- Id
- Comprises the psychic representatives of the drives
- provides energy, but it has to be controlled
- Ego
- Consists of those functions which
have to do with the individual's
relation to his environment
- Stores up
experiences in the
memory by which
it guides us and
mediates between
Id and superego
forces
- Defense
mechanism to
help control id
and superego
elements in
our psyches
- Superego
- Comprises the moral
precepts of our minds as well
as our ideal aspiration
- Provides restraint
- Symbolism: the act or process of
representing an order or idea by a
substitute object, sign, or
signal.Things that stand for other
things
- Masculine penetrating
- Female incorporative