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166-028 Political Psychology: The Public Emotions and the Public Self | |
Note | Formerly available as 166-232/332. Students who have completed 166-232/332 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Availability | 2nd and 3rd year |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
Coordinator | Graham Little |
Prerequisites | Usually 25 points of first year Politics subject. Students with only 12.5 points in Politics may apply to the second/third year coordinator. |
Semester | 2 (view timetable) |
Contact | Usually two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week |
Subject Description | A study of the passions (emotions) that drive politics and public affairs. And of how private and individual worlds intersect with public, collective worlds. Also, there will be opportunity to reflect on how the self, begun in childhood, finds expression in adult concerns and how it shapes and is shaped by social institutions and history. Students who complete this subject should: 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). |
Assessment | A written project of 1500 words, and a research essay of 2500 words. |
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