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 111-463 Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis

Credit Points

16.7 4th year

Coordinator

Associate Professor Barbara Creed

Semester

1

Contact

A 2-hour seminar and a 2-hour screening each week

Subject Description

A close study of film texts in relation to key psychoanalytic concepts with emphasis on Jungian archetypal theory; the Lacanian concept of the mirror phase; and Freudian theories of the dream work, sexual difference, primal scenes, and the uncanny. Students who complete this subject should: demonstrate an understanding of aspects of various psychoanalytic theories: Lacanian, Freudian, Jungian; demonstrate an ability to draw on psychoanalytic theories to interpret film texts and art works; demonstrate an ability to carry out close textual readings of film texts.

Assessment

Written work which may comprise class papers, essays, visual tests or take-home examinations totalling about 6000 words.



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