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 107-093 Dream Screen: Film and Psychoanalysis

Note

Formerly available as 111-463. Students who have completed 111-463 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

4th year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Assoc Prof Barbara Creed

Prerequisites

Admission to fourth year Honours in Cinema Studies see Honours Entry

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar and a 2-hour screening per 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. Relevant theories of Melanie Klein, Julia Kristeva, Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari will also be considered. Students who complete this subject should demonstrate: an understanding of aspects of various psychoanalytic theories; an ability to draw on psychoanalytic theories to interpret film texts and art works; an understanding of the above in relation to the specific psychoanalytic theories of the Cinema developed by Metz, Mulvey, Studlar and Eberwein

Assessment

A class paper of 2000 words and an essay of 3000 words.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available

  • E Wright, Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in Practice. Methuen 1984.
  • R T Eberwein, Film and the Dream Screen: A Sleep and a Forgetting. Princeton University Press 1984.


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