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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.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Assoc Prof Barbara Creed

Prerequisites

Admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or Fourth Year Honours in Cinema Studies, see Honours entry.

Semester

Not Offered (view timetable)

Subject Description

This subject involves 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.



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