Hmmm yes definitely needing some motivation to get back into it after the break. So in yesterday’s lecture I was 100% physically present (yep all body parts were there) but maybe only 50% mentally present. I’m finding many points discussed in lectures are quite repetitive from previous weeks so for my personal interest I’d like a little more traction.

Adrian talked about how language cannot guarantee the intent of the message and how words only mean something by virtue of what it isn’t. He also discussed the ‘unconscious mind’ and how there is an element of us that has no control over what we do. Now I’m no Freud expert but I would have thought we may not have control over our desires but we have control over what we do? Psychoanalysis goes way too deep for me and there are conflicting views on this but I do find it very interesting.There is this idea called the Freudian Slip, where our unconscious interferes with our actions. I have no idea how this relates to Network Media but there you go.