CTVA 400 FINAL STUDY GUIDE
Sigmund Freud
explained human psychological motivation. Freudian development is to believe the the
human motivation has a sexual and death drive.
The Pleasure Principle
the objects of a drive and the kind of satisfaction it seeks are highly variable, differing from
person to person.
Libido
Sexual desire
The Reality Principle
the constant curbing of drive according to possibility, law and social convention. (the
interplay between pleasure-seeking and the realistic limits placed on that activity, human
mental structure is born)
Repression
the process of mentally containing drives beneath conscious recognition or expression
The Unconscious
a mental screen that shields repressed drives from the conscious mind even as they attempt
to make themselves known; aspects of a self that cannot be known or expressed in the
symbolic order
Jacques Lacan
proposed the that need, demand and desire are to be take account within the development
theory. (The death drive)
The Imaginary
, a primary development space where the child learns to make demands; a realm of chaotic
images and sensory impressions into which the child is born.
The Mirror Stage
organizes the ego, prior to its social determination in a fictional direction. (child learns to
identify and recognize with its own images)
Alienation
The Symbolic
the cultural order of meaning maintained through words and symbols
Lack
the unquenchable quality of desire that references the difference between the imaginary and
symbolic orders
The Real
it is best understood as that part of life which cannot be put into language, or what cannot be
Psychoanalytic Analysis 169 articulated as a demand
Apparatus Theory
an early psychoanalytic approach to film that claims the actual environment and machinery
of the cinema activates a number of desires within spectators
Scophophilia
the pleasure that comes from the process of looking
Voyeurism
the process of experiencing pleasure by watching a desired object or person from a distance
Sigmund Freud
explained human psychological motivation. Freudian development is to believe the the
human motivation has a sexual and death drive.
The Pleasure Principle
the objects of a drive and the kind of satisfaction it seeks are highly variable, differing from
person to person.
Libido
Sexual desire
The Reality Principle
the constant curbing of drive according to possibility, law and social convention. (the
interplay between pleasure-seeking and the realistic limits placed on that activity, human
mental structure is born)
Repression
the process of mentally containing drives beneath conscious recognition or expression
The Unconscious
a mental screen that shields repressed drives from the conscious mind even as they attempt
to make themselves known; aspects of a self that cannot be known or expressed in the
symbolic order
Jacques Lacan
proposed the that need, demand and desire are to be take account within the development
theory. (The death drive)
The Imaginary
, a primary development space where the child learns to make demands; a realm of chaotic
images and sensory impressions into which the child is born.
The Mirror Stage
organizes the ego, prior to its social determination in a fictional direction. (child learns to
identify and recognize with its own images)
Alienation
The Symbolic
the cultural order of meaning maintained through words and symbols
Lack
the unquenchable quality of desire that references the difference between the imaginary and
symbolic orders
The Real
it is best understood as that part of life which cannot be put into language, or what cannot be
Psychoanalytic Analysis 169 articulated as a demand
Apparatus Theory
an early psychoanalytic approach to film that claims the actual environment and machinery
of the cinema activates a number of desires within spectators
Scophophilia
the pleasure that comes from the process of looking
Voyeurism
the process of experiencing pleasure by watching a desired object or person from a distance
