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Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Graham Little.
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: Three hours a week of lectures, seminars and tutorials.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
At the end of this subject students will:
- understand that politics is driven by human passions, fantasies and desires;
- have confronted the idea that there is unconscious politics as well as conscious politics (Sigmund Freuds first ambition was to be a great political leader);
- see that politics is far bigger than Canberra, Washington or Beijing - it threads its way through all aspects of life, into all organisations and every part of culture, even into families and intimate relationships;
- agree that politics without the human element is a contradiction in terms (Political Science without biography is a form of taxidermy, said the great American Political Psychologist, Harold Lasswell);
- have discovered links between theories about how we develop a self in childhood and national and international politics.
Content:
Some of the books students will read are A. F. Davies, The Human Element. His Skills, Outlooks and Passions, is another valuable source - especially the section on passion where he discusses the political place of envy, hope, trust, and many other emotions. Harold Lasswells Psychopathology and Politics is a classic study of the motives for becoming political. Another thing - this is a subject which encourages reflection and self-analysis as well as reading and analysing others out there in politics.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Graham Little.
Contact: Three hours of lectures, seminars and tutorials each week.
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
At the end of this subject students will:
- understand that politics is driven by human passions, fantasies and desires;
- have confronted the idea that there is unconscious politics as well as conscious politics (Sigmund Freud's first ambition was to be a great political leader);
- see that politics is far bigger than Canberra, Washington or Beijing - it threads its way through all aspects of life, into all organisations and every part of culture, even into families and intimate relationships;
- agree that politics without the human element is a contradiction in terms (Political Science without biography is a form of taxidermy, said the great American Political Psychologist, Harold Lasswell);
- have discovered links between theories about how we develop a self in childhood and national and international politics.
Content:
Some of the books students will read are A. F. Davies, The Human Element. His Skills, Outlooks and Passions, is another valuable source - especially the section on passion where he discusses the political place of envy, hope, trust, and many other emotions. Harold Lasswells Psychopathology and Politics is a classic study of the motives for becoming political. This is a subject which encourages reflection and self-analysis as well as reading and analysing others out there in politics.
Assessment:
Essay work or equivalent totalling 5,000 words.
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