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The programme is a dramatised interpretation of parts of a play by Ibsen called "Rosmersholm", and a number of Freudian ideas. It consists entirely of a dream-like presentation. The main ...aim of the programme is to stimulate the student's thinking about some of Freud's ideas, and about two of them in particular. First, that how a person behaves is only properly understandable if we know something of his history; his previous experiences and traumas; second, that much of experience, especially our experience of fantasy in sleep, through dreams, is symbolic. That which is seen on the surface, may be a facade behind which our processes are concealed. These processes may involve unconscious, id - based, libidinal material and energy. "Dreamwork" - a further Freudian concent - can link these two.
The programme is a dramatised interpretation of parts of a play by Ibsen called "Rosmersholm", and a number of Freudian ideas. It consists entirely of a dream-like presentation. The main ...aim of the programme is to stimulate the student's thinking about some of Freud's ideas, and about two of them in particular. First, that how a person behaves is only properly understandable if we know something of his history; his previous experiences and traumas; second, that much of experience, especially our experience of fantasy in sleep, through dreams, is symbolic. That which is seen on the surface, may be a facade behind which our processes are concealed. These processes may involve unconscious, id - based, libidinal material and energy. "Dreamwork" - a further Freudian concent - can link these two.
| Module code and title: | E201, Personality and learning |
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| Item code: | E201; 02 |
| First transmission date: | 21-02-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:43 |
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| Producer: | Richard Argent |
| Contributors: | Irene Hamilton; Jack Shepherd |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Rosmersholm; Behaviour; Freud; Ibsen; Personal history/experience; Symbolism; Unconscious processes |
| Footage description: | The programme consists of three sequences, all of which take place in a dream-like circus setting. The first of these is a prologue, in which Shepherd, dressed as a clown, provides the historical background to Ibsen's play and to the essays Freud wrote about it . He also outlines briefly some of the ideas contained in both the play and the essays. The main part of the programme is a dreamlike dialogue between the characters Rosmer and Rebecca, whose language is a fusion of Freud's and Ibsen's. The programme concludes with Shepherd summarising Freud's ideas on the significance of dreams. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71851 |
| Production number: | 00525_6096 |
| Videofinder number: | 545 |
| Available to public: | no |
