(Sigmund Freud)
Here's to the launch of the HamLab collaborative!
In this post please share anything new you learned, questions you still have (but didn't have the courage to ask, perhaps?), how you felt a college class compares and contrasts with a high school class, or anything else to reflect on today's seminar.
For reference, a quick summary on today's topics:
- The ego - its development, its boundaries that are blurred in cases of love or pathology.
- The superego - its role of punishing and keeping the ego in check; its roots that stem from not wanting to disappoint the mother (and by extension: parents, authority, etc.) or lose acceptance/love.
- Hamlet and repression - Freud's explanation that Hamlet does not take action against Claudius because he (Hamlet) secretly wants to be in Claudius' position - with his mother.
- The ghost - what it is: a literal ghost, or a figment of Hamlet's addled mind?
- The role of remembering and memory
- To be or not to be - its question of existence; metaphor of dreams and sleep.
- The unanswerable question: What should Hamlet do?
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