RMC201 - Chapter 6 Review Questions with Complete Answers Latest Update Graded A+

RMC201 - Chapter 6 Review Questions with Complete Answers Latest Update Graded A+ Focus Questions - Answers - What did Freud write about the unconscious? How is the psyche like an iceberg? - What are the four stages we go through in our sexual development? - What is the Oedipus complex? How does it shape texts such as King Kong and the Bond novels? - Define the id, ego, and superego. - How is the id, ego, and superego typology applied to media and society? - What are the most important "defense mechanisms"? - What does psychoanalyst Martin Grotjahn say about horror films and mysteries? - What did Freud say about masculine and feminine symbols? - How are the theories of Erik Erikson applied to smartphone use? - What did Jung and Jungians say about archetypes, the collective unconscious, and the "myth of the hero"? - What was said about the anima and the animus? - What did Jung write about the shadow element in the psyche? Psychoanalytic theory - Answers Psychoanalytic theory applies the insights of Sigmund Freud and other thinkers, such as Carl Jung, to texts of all kinds—works of serious literature as well as mass-mediated texts. Both had theories about how the human mind functions that can be used to interpret matters such as the creative process and the motivations of characters in stories. Human Psyche (Freud) - Answers divided into three spheres: the conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious. The Unconscious - Answers according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing of which we are unaware. Psychoanalytic criticism suggests that works of art resonate with this unconscious material in our minds. The Oedipus Complex - Answers according to Freud, a boy's sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father Human Sexuality - Answers Freud used the term libido for the "force by which the sexual instinct is represented in the mind." He suggested that all human beings pass through four stages in their sexual development. These stages are: the oral, the anal, the phallic, and the genital. Id - Answers according to Freud, "chaos, a cauldron of seething excitement" and is characterized by impulse and the desire for gratification such as sexual desire, lust, passion, and desire. Superego - Answers represents parental influence, conscience, and restraint. Ego - Answers The ego mediates between the id and superego. It is that agency in the human psyche that Freud said "stands for reason and good sense." The ego is charged with helping us relate to the environment and helping us preserve ourselves. Defense Mechanisms - Answers the ego's protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality. Some important defense mechanisms: Martin Grotjahn on Horror - Answers In his analysis of horror television shows, we find an understanding of why horror appeals to so many people and of the way horror relates to defense mechanisms such as repression and projection. In returning to our childhood fears, there is an element of regression. At the unconscious level, we attempt to conquer our childhood fears and may also derive some pleasure from a regression to a period when life was simpler, when we may have experienced unconditional love and admiration from our parents and others, and when we didn't have to struggle with problems of gaining independence and attaining an identity and the responsibilities of maturity.