Video Resources
Written by Patrick Cleveland, Founder & Clinical Director
This video is a lecture on some fundamental concepts of
psychoanalytic theory. It is an excerpt from a longer class lecture
I gave to my Fall 2016 Abnormal Psychology course at Long Beach
City College. In this lecture I provide a brief overview of Freud's
divided mind theory (id, ego, super-ego) which describes the
different parts of the mind, how they work together, against
each other, and how they relate to our experience and everyday
lives. I use Lacan's concept of the mirror phase to illustrate how
the id, ego, and super-ego develop from the time of birth. I
discuss how ego is built from language given to us by our parents,
and how language thus becomes the structure of consciousness. I
then discuss how the unconscious and the ego are related to
language. I use music, poetry, and the arts as examples of methods
that humans use try to capture and express that which is outside of
language, what society has forbidden or repressed, or what may lie
in unconscious of the artist, poet, writer, artist, etc.
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