Psychoanalytic Theory- ART APP

• which asserts that the perception and conception of beauty is conditioned

  by the subconscious mind.

  PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY OF BEAUTY
• Psychologist (1856-1939) considered to be father of psychoanalysis. He formulated the theory of the subconscious mind.

  SIGMUND FREUD
• Psychologist (1875-1961) who formulated the theory

  of collective consciousness and the archetypes.

  CARL JUNG
• Terrifying experience of a child whose memory lies in

  the subconscious mind, and which conditions the perception and

  conception of ugly things.
• Considered as the storage room of everything that is currently NOT in

  your conscious mind

  SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
• stores all of your previous life experiences, your beliefs, your memories, you skills, all situations you've been through and all images you've ever seen.

  SUBCONSCIOUS MIND
• 3 LEVELS OF AWARENESS

  Conscious

  Preconscious

  Unconscious
• Current contents of your mind that you actively think of

  Conscious
• What we call working memory

  Conscious
• Easily accessed all the time

  Conscious
• Contents of the mind you are not currently aware of

  Preconscious
• Thoughts, memories, knowledge, wishes, feelings

  Preconscious
• Available for easy access when needed

  Preconscious
• Contents kept out of conscious awareness

  Unconscious
• Not accessible at all

  Unconscious
• Processes that actively keep these thoughts from awareness

  Unconscious
• Freudian Components of Personality

  The Id

  The Ego

  The Superego
• Resides completely at the unconscious level

  Id
• Acts under the pleasure principle

  Id
• -immediate gratification,

  not willing to compromise

  – Generates all of the

  personality’s energy

  Id
• The moralist and idealistic part of the personality

  Superego
• Resides in preconscious

  Superego
• Operates on “ideal principle”

  Superego
• – Begins forming at 4-5 yrs of age

  – initially formed form environment

  and others (society, family etc)

  – Internalized conventions and

  morals

  Superego
• Essentially your “conscience”

  Superego
• Resides in all levels of awareness

  Ego
• Operates under “reality principle”

  Ego
• Attempts negotiation between Id and Superego to satisfy both realistically

  Ego
• Jung's most distinctive concept, emotionally toned experiences derived from ancestors.

  Collective Unconscious
• are ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective

  unconscious

  Archetypes
• which is the side of personality that people show to the world.

  PERSONA
• Not necessarily the same as the public face that one shows others

  PERSONA
• consists of morally objectionable tendencies as well as a

  number of constructive qualities that we are reluctant

  to face

  SHADOW
• archetype of darkness and repression, representing the

  qualities that we do not wish to acknowledge but

  attempt to hide from ourselves and others

  SHADOW
• feminine side of men and originates in the collective

  unconscious as an archetype and remains extremely

  resistant to consciousness

  ANIMA
• masculine side of women and originates in the collective

  unconscious as an archetype that, too, is resistant to

  consciousness

  ANIMUS
• symbolic of thinking and reasoning and is capable of

  influencing the thinking of women yet it does not belong

  to her

  ANIMUS
• derivative of the animus and anima

  GREAT MOTHER
• represents the opposing

  forces of fertility and nourishment on the one

  hand and power and destruction on the other

  GREAT MOTHER
• representative of wisdom and meaning, and

  symbolizes human’s pre-existing knowledge of

  the mysteries of life

  WISE OLD MAN