The Age of Anxiety

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The Age of Anxiety
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How things changed

• What was the Enlightenment?
• People came out of the Enlightenment so certain
  about the world
• Newtons ideas about the world (absolute laws of
  motion and gravity)
• Reason and rationalization
• What is anxiety?
• Anxiety feeling of worry, nervousness or
  agitation

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Age of Anxiety

• Why anxiety?
• After World War I, society didnt seem so
  greateven using reason, people couldnt make any
  sense of war

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Albert Einstein

• Theory of Relativity the principle of relative
  motion and the interrelation between time, space,
  and matter
• Light travels at exactly the same speed no matter
  what direction it moves in relation to the earth.
• The subatomic world
• Einsteins formula Emc2 led to the development
  of the atom bomb.

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Sigmund Freud

• Sigmund Freud
• Doctor treated patients with psychological
  problems
• Believed that human behavior is irrational, or
  beyond reason
• Called the irrational part the unconscious
• Pleasure-seeking drives exist in the unconscious,
  and the conscious is unaware of these drives

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Freuds View of the Human Mind
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Freuds Unconscious

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v3q9IRY_VXPs
• First 4 minutes

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Post-war society influenced

• Art
• Surrealism
• Expressionism
• Cubism
• Philosophy
• Existentialism (no universal meaning to lifewe
  create our own meanings)

• Music
• Dissonance, irregular beats, harsh combination of
  sounds
• Jazz
• Literature
• The Lost Generation
• T.S. Eliot The Wasteland
• F.Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
• Society
• Rebellion the 1920s!

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Pablo Picasso

• Cubism Expressionist style that featured
  geometric planes and angles looks like an
  intricate stack of boxes
• Rejected realism

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• Biography
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vPjlq85R_mcQ
• Picasso Painting
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vpNrYupcDlXE
• Picassos Top 20 Paintings
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v-3RRzUV0xDM

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FINAL TASK

• Create one question about each person.
• Dont make it way simple. ?