You should NOT “Google” the questions. The questions are designed to make “Googling” a useless endeavor. “Googled” responses will receive zero credit and may lead to your failing the exam if you plagiarized online sources. (Your responses will be run through Turnitin.) You should develop careful, thoughtful responses to each question. You need not use any quotes, but at the end of your response to each question you should list the class materials and texts that contributed to your response. This step is crucial. It can help me understand your thought process in awarding you points for your answer. You don’t need to use any formal citation method (e.g. MLA or CMS). Instead, use the following as a model: Lecture: Freud Chapter 6 Plato Symposium 219a-c. McGowan Rules of the Game (excerpt) Lecture Notes on Vertigo YouTube Video: McGowan: “Death Drive” This is the principle vehicle by which I can evaluate how well you have understood the material. You do not want to rush through these answers. You do not want to complete the entire exam in one sitting. They are not designed to test your memory (obviously) but are aimed at evaluating your understanding. These questions are very challenging and are intended to see if you watched the lectures and read (and understood) the required reading. Questions: Answer them ALL. You should copy these questions into a word processor (such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs (Links to an external site.), if using Pages, save as a Word file) and save them as a .doc file. You will then submit it using the link below. Turnitin will scan the document for evidence of plagiarism. Be careful with your work: do not share your actual answers with any other students. A very common understanding of the relationship between the ego, id, and superego is to claim that “the ego mediates between the desires of id and the demands of the superego.” What is wrong with this conception of Freud’s theory? What does Freud think the ego is? What does Freud think the superego is? (Why is it wrong to connect the superego with “morality?”) Explain the “history of love” according to Freud (as described in lecture). In doing so, make sure to explain both in what sense Eros and Ananke are the “parents of civilization” and why civilization places restrictions on Eros. Make sure you also explain “Bands of Brothers” and “Totemic Culture.” What is the “death drive?” How might it be related to the Lacanian concept of “jouissance.” Why is it wrong to see the death drive as an “instinct of destruction?” How does “Nosedive” illustrate the death drive? Explain the “desire of the m(O)ther” in Beginners. Explain the “drive of the Jack Russell” and how this early scene in the film parallels and explains both why Anna and Oliver are attracted to each other and why it is so difficult for them to be together. Explain McGowan’s claim that Vertigo “unravels the male fantasy at the heart of the ideal romance.” Explain the difference between object of desire and object-cause of desire as it relates to the film. How does this relate to the “agalma” in Plato’s Symposium. Both Aristophanes and Diotima think Eros is about “lack.” Explain and compare their two views. What role does Alcibiades play in the Symposium (and in Socrates’ life)? According to lecture, what does his intrusion do to the way the text theorizes love?
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