Subcultures Seminar

Seminar - Subcultures

South park, parody goths and other subcultures, tenuous link. Episodes of simpsons as well reference subcultures, family guy etc. Exaggerated forms of the subculture for comedy. 

Difficult subject to link to animation.

Go back in history, with 1920’s flappers. But Dick Hebdige writes about skinheads and punk that are recent and started off being underground then died out because of the media. 

Is Daria from a subculture? Is she her own subculture because she’s so different to everybody else. 

Tim Burton adopted by goth’s, Not confining to those who like it.

Is it preferable to an avent garde following or a mainstream following?

Freud’s Pyscho Anaylsis.

Un Chien Andalou, Salvador Dali

Part psychology (behaviour) and psychiatry (mental illness). Although it is linked to them both, it’s a ‘way of thinking’ that can be applied to society including art and design.

Misconception that is about sex, whilst psychoanalysis does position the role of sexuality, especially in our infancy, as a foundation of our adult live. It is also about how we treat and examine other objects.

Look at where psychoanalysis emerges,

Identify key concepts and terms, ego, super ego, ID, abject, object relations.

Look at object-relation theory with regards to art and design,

Look at the abject.

Freud’s definitions.

A discipline founded on a procedure for the investigation of mental processes that are otherwise inaccessible because they are unconscious.

A therapeutic method for the treatment of neurotic disorders.

A body of psychological date evolving into a new scientific discipline.

Hitchcock films deals with subconscious, so does David Lynch. Is there an appropriateness to it with it being live film.

The third category comprises Freud’s work on culture, which is largely based on the view that culture is a product of the diversion or sublimation of sexual energy.

Sublimation - the conversion of sexual drives and energies into creative and intellectual activity. Deny that its there, like the M&S advert.

Pyschoanalysis dissects the unconscious mind. It comes out when you most lose control of it, like in dreams. 

Sigmund Freud 1856-1939

ID- Governed by the pleasure principle

Ego - Governed by the reality principle

Superego - the ego ideal

Dali,

Drugs or creativity?

Paintings of dreams, drug fuelled, ate hash. Had mental illness also.

Were surrealists a subculture?