Desire

Freud repressed memories find they're way to the subconscious. This can lead to many mental diseases. The only way tu cure it is to deal with the repressed memories.
Freud communicated the human psychic as a diagram, at the top there is the conscious (tip if the iceber), then theres the pre conscious, and finally in the bottom is unconscious. And throught there's is the ego and super ego.
Case study of Freud- Little Hans.
Little Hans had fear of horses. Freud deduced that the root of his fear comes from the Oedipus complex, so the infant boy find inappropriate feelings for his mother and he feared that his father might castrate him, so his father becomes a rival for the attention of the mother. Symbolicly his father is represented by the horse. Because the horse were the integral part of society, and being bit by a horse meant being castrated. So in a nutshell the unconscious manifested to a fear.
Vance Packard talks about desire in his book "The Hidden Persuaders". In once chapter he discusses how shell shocked soldiers after the world war II had a craving for milk, and this tranlated as they're unconscious craving to go back to child hood and become dependant on the parent figure. And marketing took tgat idea of desire and applied it to selling products.
Jacques Lacan talkes about how unconscious is structured like a language, semiotic. By that he meant that the language speak us, language thinks us. It allows change and distortion in our representation.'desire is neither the appetite for satisfaction, nor the demand for love, but the difference that results from subtraction of the first from the second'. Desire itself is built upon the lack of other needs. As animals we have biological needs, but as humans we have emotional needs. They're two different things but they're still bound together. But the problem is that although our physical needs can be stisfied, our emotional ones can't. And desire is used to differentiate between the two.

Establishing a research question

So during our last CoP seminar we were asked to come up with a research question and what resources we would use to research it. We were handed out forms and were asked to fill them in. We were aslo told to try and come up with a topic that is relevant to us, so we would be interested in researching it. So mine did not take long, I was really inspired by the flipped classroom lecture and remembered this TED talk about how schools kill creativity. So I decided I wanted to look further into that. This topic is relevant to me because I attended an art gymnasium for 6 years and I feel like it killed my creativity instead of letting it grow. To be completely honest, after I finished school I was questioning weather arts was really what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I am glad I stuck with it after all, but I am curious as to why that happened. So this is my filled out form-

OUGD501 – STUDY TASK 3 – ESTABLISHING A RESEARCH QUESTION

Suggested Research Question. This can be a topic or theme, but please try to be as precise as possible.

Do schools kill creativity?

Which Of The Module Resources Does This Question Relate To? You can find these on eStudio - Try to list at least three.

Which Academic Sources Are Available On The Topic? Include a Harvard Referenced bibliography of at least 5 sources.

Robinson, K (1982) The Arts in Schools, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London, United Kingdom Robinson, K (2011) Out Of Our Minds, Capstone Publishing, West Sussex, United Kingdom Illich I.(1971) Deschooling Society, Harper & Row, New York, USA Xiufang, W (2002) Education in China Since 1976, Mc Farland & Co, Jefferson, USA Rancière, J. (1991) The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, Stanford: Stanford UP

How Could The Research Question Be Investigated Through Practice? What Graphic Design would you make in response to this, and why?

I would make an animation exploring the structure of schools, comparing it to a factory, or follow a narrative of an individual student.

Peer Feedback – How could this topic be refined / developed? Show this form to a fellow student. They should record their feedback in the box below

After explaining my ideas for the essay, my peers seemed to find it really interesting and I was told it is a very wide and interesting topic to explore. One of my peers suggested looking into Chinese education system and compare it to the Western or Scandinavian education systems.