The Psychoanalytical Perspective Lens

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS? 

Don't worry I asked the same question when someone first brought this up. But it is something quite simple and something we use often, just a long phrase for it. This perspective is based off Frued and his theories. Below I have more explanation about Freud, but no worries we won't go that into depth.

We are going to talk more about the reasons of WHY people do things. Why the author wrote the way she did. Why the characters in the story did what they did. And What you would do in that situation and why. I'll explain this more in our discussion questions.

And now....

FREUD'S THEORIES 

So the psychoanalytical perspective is the basic theories of Freud. This man was quite an interesting fellow. He took only two case studies and made up his theories. Basically they explain what we commonly think about and what we tend to do and why.

I found The best explanation of Freud off of Prude Owl. Here is the basic description of his theory.

Freud believed that our unconscious was influenced by childhood events. Freud organized these events into developmental stages involving relationships with parents and drives of desire and pleasure where children focus "...on different parts of the body...starting with the mouth...shifting to the oral, anal, and phallic phases..." (Richter 1015). These stages reflect base levels of desire, but they also involve fear of loss (loss of genitals, loss of affection from parents, loss of life) and repression: "...the expunging from consciousness of these unhappy psychological events" (Tyson 15).

Also with Freud he talks about the unconscious desires and conscious desires. He calls it the ID Ego And super ego. The best way I can explain this is a couple pictures I found on Google (don't you love that thing?)



Here is the Link to Prude Owl and Another website I found that explains him a little more if you are interested.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/04/
http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/psycho.crit.html