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1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p151) : Next:166-223 | Prev:166-220
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: John Cash.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first-year Politics; students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the 2nd/3rd-year coordinator.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour seminar a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who successfully complete this subject should possess:
- knowledge of some major traditions in psychoanalytic theory; particularly Freudian, Kleinian and Lacanian;
- knowledge of some major traditions of social theory and their appropriations of psychoanalysis;
- an understanding of the place of psychoanalysis within certain forms of feminist theory;
- an awareness of why social theory has been drawn to psychoanalysis for the purpose of both theorising and analysing subjectivity, group processes, intergroup relations, ideological formations, and forms of reason;
- an understanding of the ways in which social theory has turned to psychoanalysis in order to develop methods of analysis which may be used in the study of empirical cases, be these individual or social;
- an awareness of the centrality of psychoanalysis to the contemporary human sciences.
Content:
Psychoanalysis has informed and influenced contemporary social theory in significant ways. Central to theorising the decentred course of late- and post-modernity; it has radically affected conceptualisations of ideology, thrown reason under radical suspicion and has contributed to better understandings of sexed identities and gender relations. In particular, Freud, Klein, Lacan, Kristeva, Adorno, Fromm, Habermas, Mitchell, Giddens, Flax and Althusser are addressed, along with empirical research which draws upon their work.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p151) : Next:166-223 | Prev:166-220
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-223 | Prev:166-220
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: John Cash.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour seminar each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who successfully complete this subject should possess:
- knowledge of some major traditions in psychoanalytic theory; particularly Freudian, Kleinian and Lacanian;
- knowledge of some major traditions of social theory and their appropriations of psychoanalysis;
- an understanding of the place of psychoanalysis within certain forms of feminist theory;
- an awareness of why social theory has been drawn to psychoanalysis for the purpose of both theorising and analysing subjectivity, group processes, intergroup relations, ideological formations, and forms of reason;
- an understanding of the ways in which social theory has turned to psychoanalysis in order to develop methods of analysis which may be used in the study of empirical cases, be these individual or social;
- an awareness of the centrality of psychoanalysis to the contemporary human sciences.
Content:
Psychoanalysis has informed and influenced contemporary social theory in significant ways. Central to theorising the decentred subject of late- and post-modernity; it has radically affected conceptualisations of ideology, thrown reason under radical suspicion and has contributed to better understandings of sexed identities and gender relations. In particular, Freud, Klein, Lacan, Kristeva, Adorno, Fromm, Habermas, Mitchell, Giddens, Flax and Althusser are addressed, along with empirical research which draws upon their work.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p163) : Next:166-223 | Prev:166-220
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