Honors 9 Homework for 9/25/18

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Honors 9 Notes for 9/25/18

Intro to Hero’s Journey

Connotative -  signifying or suggestive of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary meaning

Denotative - explicit; overt

3 types of symbolism: archetypal/universal, cultural, personal

The idea of archetypal symbols comes from Carl Jung, Freud’s student.

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis.

• 1st scientific approach to understanding the conscious and unconscious mind
• Conscious is the “knowing mind” and unconscious is the unaware mind

There are 3 parts of the unconscious: the id, the ego, and the superego.

Id = animal part and the oldest part, developed first, concerned with immediate gratification, mememe, not overtly violent but may become so if what it wants is withheld

Ego - Latin for “I”, I am what I decide to do, it the the decider (the angel and devil on the shoulder)

Superego - most recently acquired part of the subconscious, it is the parental voice that says thou shalt/thou shalt not, it regulates behavior

Freud’s approach to psychoanalysis was mostly through dream analysis. His first book was called “The Interpretation of Dreams”.

When Freud began to analyze data from his many patients, he noticed that lots of them complained about disturbing dreams. Upon collecting data from hundreds of patients, patterns emerged in these dreams. He found that many of his patients’ dreams had similar content.

Freud used free association to analyze dream content.

He coined the phrase Oedipus Complex, based on the “Oedipal Dream” -- many dreams express libidinous desires toward the opposite sex parent and violent or hostile feelings toward the same sex parent.

This phrase comes from the play “Oedipus”, where the titular character kills his father (unbeknownst to him) and marries his mother.

When Freud asked patients to talk about their dreams, he would ask them to break them down into parts. He would ask them to use free association to determine the symbolic meaning of dreams.

As a result, he was able to separate these symbols into three categories: symbols that had a personal meaning, symbols that had a cultural meaning, and symbols that appeared to be universal, and are also called archetypes.

Freud was very pessimistic. He thought that neuroses and mental illnesses were caused by repressed childhood trauma. These could only be treated through psychoanalysis.

Darwin’s work was influential in that it prompted people to begin thinking about what might be inherited. It also posited that humans had a common progenitor(s), meaning that we are all descended from a small group of ancestors.

There are some who theorize that certain types of memories can be inherited - ancestral memory = phobias of darkness, spiders, snakes

Darwin’s theories had some influence on Carl Jung, who was also Freud’s student.

Jung came to see the unconscious as an incredible repository (storage) of help - this is because the unconscious mind knows more than the conscious mind. Jung thought that dreams could be compensatory, meaning that they exist in order to relieve the pressures we face in our waking lives.

Jung posits that there is a 4th part of the unconscious in addition to the id, ego, and superego -- the collective unconscious, which builds upon the idea that as we inherit physical traits, so too do we inherit psychological traits. Jung called these “collective images” or “archetypes”.

The packet we are about to read is by Joseph Campbell and essentially comes from Jungian psychology.

Campbell’s best known book is “Hero with 1,000 Faces” and describes the pattern of behavior for all heroes and most stories.

This is the Hero’s Journey. It describes the hero’s quest from known world to unknown world and back to known world.