1. -Explains the patterns of behavior of a character
I. What are the behaviors motivated by?
a. Desires
b. Fears
c. Conflicts
d. Needs
e. Attitude
f. Role of the family
a. Oedipal / Electra Complex
b. Sibling rivalry

2. • Dreams are symbols
-Latent content is the real message
a. displacement (stand-in person)
b. condensation (stand-in conflict)
We create the characters, the symbols, and the
meaning (so what does that say about us: Reader
Response Critical Theory)
Phallic-symbols are images of the male
Yonic- symbols are images of the female

3. • Death
– Crisis and trauma
– Principal organizer of our psychological experience
– Death is the ultimate abandonment
• We die alone; hence religion
• Leads into fear of abandonment which causes fear of loss
and then of course fear of intimacy
• All lead into fear of life to fear of risk OR the total opposite:
– Thanatos is our death drive: causes self-destructive
behaviors
• Death work
– Natural and unavoidable

4. Emotional and Biological Death
-loss of nay kind
- “If I don’t feel anything, then I can’t get hurt”
a. isolation
b. fascination
c. projection
*This occurs in all of us to a certain degree

5. Sexuality
-Eros is our sex drive
a. A part of our personality/identity
-Clearest and consistent barometer of our
psychological state
a. how, why, when, amount, what, who
-Our culture defines these rules (super-ego)

6. -Libido is our sexual energy
-Male genital envy
i. all the power that goes to men than women
don’t get
-Castration Anxiety
i. losing that male power: domination
ii. To be like a female/less than the male
stereo-type
a. these both are our cultural (super-ego)
gender roles

7. EGO
-conscious self
-referees between the id and
the super-ego
-society vs us
a. what we want
ID vs Super-Ego
-Id is our instincts
a. devoted to desire and
does not care about the
consequences
i. desires forbidden things
-Super-ego is our internalized
values and taboos
i. makes us feel guilty
because we are told
we should/ should
not