Treats a series of topics that change every year and deal with various aspects of psychology. Courses are taught by permanent or visiting faculty and are generally related to their fields of specialization.This course can be used to fulfil the fundamentals requirements in the psychology major.
This team-taught course will interweave close readings of Freud’s original works and discussion of psychoanalytic theories of interpretation with supervised data collection related to themes brought up in the readings. Psychoanalysis will be studied both in relation to literature and as a particular development in medical semiology where focus is shifted from “seeing the body” towards listening to language and discourse. Students will read the original sources and be able to examine traces left by psychoanalysis on current lay thinking about the self, desire, and relations to others. Not only will we look at how contemporary psychologies, anthropologies, and neurosciences have integrated, replaced, or transformed some of Freud and his followers’ contributions, we will also investigate though hands-on research current “syncretisms” in everyday discourse in which people draw on a variety of psychological sciences and cultural traditions for their understanding of self and others. Psychoanalysis, whether celebrated, scorned, or seemingly forgotten, has embedded itself in our culture and been exported beyond its western European frontiers. Thanks to the alternating sessions with each professor in this team-taught course, students will be able to read original sources and examine their traces in contemporary psychological discourses.
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Thursday
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16:55
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18:15
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