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FS5020: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CINEMA (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:39


Course Overview

This course will examine the history of psychoanalysis and cinema’s clinical, philosophical and filmic interactions before approaching film works as case studies of specific pathologies and concepts (psychosis, perversion, trauma etc.). Films by Pabst, Powell, Hitchcock, Haneke, Lynch, Svankmajer, Huston, Olivier, Winocour, Cronenberg and others will be considered.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Old Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Paul Flaig

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Either Master of Letters in Visual Culture (Studied) or M Litt in Creative Writing (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Having emerged as contemporaries during the fin-de-siècle, psychoanalysis and cinema have a complex history of both interaction and estrangement. Whether deploying photography to capture the spasms and symptoms of hysteria or using the cinema to reveal the subjective desires at work in dreams, thinkers from Charcot to Freud, Lacan to Zizek have found in film a powerful means of reflecting, translating and shaping the unconscious. This course will first examine the history of psychoanalysis and cinema’s clinical, philosophical and filmic interactions before approaching film works as case studies of specific pathologies and concepts (psychosis, perversion, trauma etc.). Films by Pabst, Powell, Hitchcock, Haneke, Lynch, Svankmajer, Huston, Olivier, Winocour, Cronenberg and others will be considered. 

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

1st Attempt;  1 research essay (100%) (5000 words)

Resit;  1 research essay (100%) (5000 words)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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